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Christiaan Neethling Barnard is the South African cardiothoracic surgeon who, in 1967 at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, performed the first human heart transplant. Barnard was born on November 8, 1922, in Beaufort West, South Africa. He attended the local high school and then, in 1940, went to the University of Cape Town, where he received his medical degree in 1946. After working in private practice from 1948 to 1951, Barnard became Senior Resident Medical Officer at the City Hospital in Cape Town for two years. In 1953, Barnard was elected Registrar at Groote Schuur Hospital, later to be the place of his most important work. In 1956, he was awarded a scholarship to the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA; he returned to South Africa two years later, taking with him a heart-lung machine. He became Director of Surgical Research at Groote Schuur and the University of Cape Town, and in 1961 was made Head of Cardiothoracic Surgery.

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