John H. Gibbon, Jr. (double portrait), ca. 1953

Creator

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Creation Date

1-1-1953

Description

1927 graduate of Jefferson Medical College. Professor of Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, 1946-1967, and inventor of the Gibbon heart-lung machine. Cecelia Bavolek, the first patient to undergo a successful heart operation with the machine, appears on the right.

Document Type

Image

Dimensions

8 x 10 in. ; 5 x 7 in. ; 3.5 x 5 in.

Publisher

Thomas Jefferson University

Notes

3 copy prints.

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