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Christiaan Neethling Barnard ( 8 November 1922 – 2 September 2001 ) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant.
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* 1967 – At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human ( 53-year-old Louis Washkansky ).
* December 3 – Christiaan Barnard carries out the world's first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town.
The first success was achieved on December 3, 1967, by Christiaan Barnard in Cape Town, South Africa.
He was admitted to the ICU of the Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital with a serious skull fracture.
* January 2-Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the second successful human heart transplant, in South Africa, on Philip Blaiberg, who survives for nineteen months.
* December 3-Dr Christiaan Barnard and a team including his brother Marius perform the first successful human heart transplant, at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, on Louis Washkansky, who survives for eighteen days.
It was founded in 1938 and is famous for being the institution where the first human heart transplant took place, conducted by University of Cape Town-educated surgeon Christiaan Barnard on the patient Louis Washkansky.
Other popular choices ranged from Professor Christiaan Barnard, the pioneering heart surgeon, to General Jan Smuts, wartime Prime Minister and co-founder of the League of Nations, to Shaka Zulu, the 19th Century warrior leader of the Zulu Nation, to Internet entrepreneur and civilian space traveller Mark Shuttleworth.
In recognition of these and other achievements he was knighted in 1971 further confirming a national prominence comparable to that achieved by René Favaloro in Argentina and Christiaan Barnard in South Africa.
He was first seen by Dr. Barry Kaplan, who in July 1966 had asked if Mr Christiaan Barnard would be willing to attend Washkansky.
Denise Ann Darvall ( 1943 – 3 December 1967 ) was the donor in the world ’ s first successful human heart transplant, performed at Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa, by a team of surgeons led by Christiaan Barnard.
Christiaan and 8
* July 8 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician and physicist who developed the wave theory of light ( b. 1629 )
Christiaan Huygens, FRS ( or ; ; 14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695 ) was a prominent Dutch mathematician, astronomer, physicist and horologist.
Christiaan Huygens, in a letter dated June 8, 1694, wrote to Leibniz, " I do not know if you are acquainted with the accident which has happened to the good Mr Newton, namely, that he has had an attack of phrenitis, which lasted eighteen months, and of which they say his friends have cured him by means of remedies, and keeping him shut up.
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* November 5 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1858 )
The following year, Sir Frederick Hopkins postulated that some foods contained " accessory factors "— in addition to proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and salt — that were necessary for the functions of the human body .< ref > Christiaan Eijkman, Beriberi and Vitamin B < sub > 1 </ sub >, Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation </ ref > In 1901, Gerrit Grijns ( May 28, 1865 – November 11, 1944 ), a Dutch physician and assistant to Christiaan Eijkman in the Netherlands correctly interpreted the disease as a deficiency syndrome, and between 1910 and 1913, Dr. Edward Bright Vedder established that an extract of rice bran is a treatment for beriberi.
Christiaan Eijkman (; 11 August 1858 – 5 November 1930 ) was a Dutch physician and professor of physiology whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of vitamins.
He was the presenter of the first live transatlantic broadcast from the US via Telstar, the first live telecast from Australia in November 1966, and interviewed South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard by telephone in 1967, within hours of the completion of the world's first heart transplant operation.
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* Christiaan Barnard ( 1922 – 2001 ), a South African surgeon, who performed the world's first heart transplant operation
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The Huygens – Fresnel principle ( named after Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens and French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel ) is a method of analysis applied to problems of wave propagation both in the far-field limit and in near-field diffraction.
* 1930 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1858 )
File: Christiaan Huygens-painting. jpeg | Christiaan Huygens ( 1629-1695 ): studied the rings of Saturn and discovered its moon Titan, invented the pendulum clock, studied optics and centrifugal force, theorized that light consists of waves ( Huygens – Fresnel principle ) which became instrumental in the understanding of wave-particle duality.
* August 11 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1930 )
Christiaan Huygens was born in April 1629 at The Hague, the second son of Constantijn Huygens, ( 1596 – 1687 ), friend of mathematician, philosopher and minor physicist René Descartes, and of Suzanna van Baerle ( deceased 1637 ), whom Constantijn had married on 6 April 1627.
In his 1678 Traité de la Lumiere, Christiaan Huygens showed how Snell's law of sines could be explained by, or derived from, the wave nature of light, using what we have come to call the Huygens – Fresnel principle.
For their ideas on derivatives, both Newton and Leibniz built on significant earlier work by mathematicians such as Isaac Barrow ( 1630 – 1677 ), René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ), Christiaan Huygens ( 1629 – 1695 ), Blaise Pascal ( 1623 – 1662 ) and John Wallis ( 1616 – 1703 ).
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