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Science News Online: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | This book is a collection of musings and memories by 24 theoretical and experimental physicists, cosmologists, science historians, and science journalists about this legendary man and his ideas. |
 | | Between 1958 and 1968, however, four ambitious surgeons set out to prove that, to the contrary, the heart could be surgically transplanted from one body to another. |
 | | McRae recounts the thrilling story behind the race to complete the first human-heart transplant and details how doctors Norman Shumway, Richard Lower, Christiaan Barnard, and Adrian Kantrowitz were all, at one point or another, just hours from being the first to accomplish that medical milestone. |
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