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.
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Gibbon performed the first successful open-heart operation with a heart-lung machine in 1953
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September 29, 1903
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John Heysham Gibbon (September 29, 1903 - February 5, 1973) 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. Descended from the Gibbon family, who first arrived in Philadelphia from Wiltshire, England in 1684, his father was a surgeon at Pennsylvania Hospital and the Hospital of Jefferson Medical College.
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John Heysham Gibbon (September 29, 1903, February 5, 1973) 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.
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