Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Former Lewiston Resident Bernard Lown
Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me. › August 31, 2008
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Saving lives, building bridges, reflecting on his Lewiston roots.
It was a night for celebration.Someone dropped the gold medal in a carafe of vodka and, while everyone else did shots, Bernard Lown didn't think he'd see his Nobel Peace Prize again. After years of braving insults and suspicion with dogged insistence, Lown and Eugene Chazov had gotten the world's attention: With their scenarios that counted millions of dead, neither Russia nor the U.S. could win a nuclear war.See the full content of this document
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Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Former Lewiston Resident Bernard Lown
Finally, people who mattered were listening. Lown and Chazov had been honored for their work against nuclear proliferation.
On that happy night in Russia in 1985, the prized medal found its way back to Lown. It's now on loan to the National Library of Medicine's exhibit on medical activism. Lown says proudly that he got his rabble-rousing start in Lewiston-Auburn.In October, his adopted hometowns will rename South Bridge for Lown, a prospect t...See the full content of this document
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