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Christiaan Neethling Barnard 8 November — 2 September was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation. On 3 December , Barnard transplanted the heart of accident victim Denise Darvall into the chest of year-old Louis Washkansky, with Washkansky regaining full consciousness and being able to talk easily with his wife, before dying eighteen days later of pneumonia, largely brought on by the anti-rejection drugs that suppressed his immune system.

Barnard had told Mr. Barnard's second transplant patient, Philip Blaiberg, whose operation was performed at the beginning of , returned home from the hospital and lived for a year and a half. As a young doctor experimenting on dogs, Barnard developed a remedy for the infant defect of intestinal atresia. His technique saved the lives of ten babies in Cape Town and was adopted by surgeons in Britain and the United States.

In , he travelled to the United States and was initially assigned further gastrointestinal work by Owen Harding Wangensteen at the University of Minnesota. He was introduced to the heart-lung machine, and Barnard was allowed to transfer to the service run by open heart surgery pioneer Walt Lillehei.

The first human heart transplant that had been carried out by the South African surgeon, Christiaan ('Chris') Barnard at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town.

He retired as head of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Cape Town in after rheumatoid arthritis in his hands ended his surgical career. He became interested in anti-aging research, and in his reputation suffered when he promoted Glycel, an expensive "anti-aging" skin cream, whose approval was withdrawn by the United States Food and Drug Administration soon thereafter.

During his remaining years, he established the Christiaan Barnard Foundation, dedicated to helping underprivileged children throughout the world. He died in at the age of 78 after an asthma attack. One of his four brothers, Abraham, was a "blue baby" who died of a heart problem at the age of three Barnard would later guess that it was tetralogy of Fallot.

The family also experienced the loss of a daughter who was stillborn and who had been the fraternal twin of Barnard's older brother Johannes, who was twelve years older than Chris. His father served as a missionary to mixed-race people. His mother, the former Maria Elisabeth de Swart, instilled in the surviving brothers the belief that they could do anything they set their minds to.