Earl E. Bakken, Pacemaker Inventor and Medtronic Founder, Dies at 94
Earl E. Bakken, who, working in a Minneapolis garage, invented the first wearable, battery-powered pacemaker and went on to help create the world’s largest medical device company, died on Sunday at his home in Hawaii. He was 94. His death, near Kiholo Bay in the North Kona District of the Big Island, was announced by…