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Barnard Christiaan Neetling
(1922—2001)

Christiaan Neethling Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon, famous for performing the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant. Barnard did his internship and residency at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, after which he worked as a general practitioner in Ceres, a rural town in the Western Cape province. In 1951, he... More...

St. Helena Island, 2004, Christiaan Barnard