Earl Bakken
American academic (1924–2018)
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Updated 2026-06-25
Earl Elmer Bakken was an American engineer, inventor, businessman and philanthropist. He founded Medtronic, where he developed the first external, battery-operated, transistorized, wearable artificial pacemaker in 1957.
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