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Andrea Ferrero
Andrea Ferrero (18 Novembre 1903 – 10 June 1996) was an Italian people, Italian diplomat. After graduating in law in Turin, he joined Italy's foreign service, working as a diplomat in Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, New York City, Moscow, and Athens. After World War II he became Second Secretary in London. In this capacity, he helped with the repatriation of Italian prisoners of war. Ferrero then served as Counsellor in Cairo from 1950 to 1954, during the critical times of the 1952 Egyptian Revolution, Egyptian Revolution. In that period, the Italian ambassador to Egypt passed away and Italy, following the dictates of the British, didn't appoint a new ambassador, in order to avoid to specify whether the new representative would be accredited to King Farouk as King of Egypt or King of Egypt ''and Sudan''. Thus Ferrero became the ''chargé d'affaires'', providing reports about the conflict in this capacity. In the mid 1950s he served as Consul General in Geneva and Italian Delegate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christiaan Barnard
Christiaan Neethling Barnard (8 November 1922 – 2 September 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation. On 3 December 1967, Barnard transplanted the heart of accident-victim Denise Darvall into the chest of 54-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. and Mrs. Washkansky that the operation had an 80% chance of success, an assessment which has been criticised as misleading. Barnard's second transplant patient, Philip Blaiberg, whose operation was performed at the beginning of 1968, returned home from the hospital and lived for a year and a half. Born in Beaufort West, Cape Province, Barnard studied medicine and practised for several years in his native South Africa. As a young docto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
