 His work made possible and safe much of modern cardiac surgery, as well as a host of other innovations.In 1985, Lown accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, an organization he co-founded with Soviet cardiologist Yevgeny Chazov, who later was Minister Of Health of the USSR.Lown is currently Professor of Cardiology Emeritus at the Harvard T.H.