Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Name the South African surgeon who carried out the first heart transplant operation?

  1. Dr Ruth

  2. Dr. Wilder Penfield

  3. Dr Christian Barnard

  4. Davis Livingstone
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Explanation

Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant on December 3, 1967 at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. The patient, Louis Washkansky, lived for 18 days after the pioneering surgery.

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