John Heysham Gibbon
✓ Source-basedstableAmerican surgeon (1903-1973)
John Heysham Gibbon was an American surgeon best known for inventing the heart-lung machine and performing subsequent open-heart surgeries which revolutionized heart surgery in the twentieth century. He was the son of Dr.
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Étienne-Émile BaulieuAlso won Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
F. Albert CottonAlso won John Scott Award
Solomon H. SnyderAlso won Dickson Prize in MedicineAbout this person
John Heysham Gibbon was an American surgeon best known for inventing the heart-lung machine and performing subsequent open-heart surgeries which revolutionized heart surgery in the twentieth century. He was the son of Dr. John Heysham Gibbon Sr., and Marjorie Young Gibbon, and came from a long line of medical doctors including his father, grandfather Robert, great-grandfather John and great-great grandfather.
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