christiaan barnard

     

He broke S. Africa's race barrier by transplanting black man's heart into white body

Trivia about christiaan barnard

  • This South African heart transplant pioneer is the son of a Dutch Reformed minister
  • In 1967 this South African surgeon performed the world's first human heart transplant
  • He once said, "On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday I was world renowned"

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