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About John Heysham Gibbon
John Heysham Gibbon was an American surgeon best known for inventing the heart–lung machine and performing subsequent open-heart surgeries which revolutionized heart surgery in the twentieth century. He was the son of Dr. John Heysham Gibbon Sr., and Marjorie Young Gibbon, and came from a long line of medical doctors including his father, grandfather Robert, great-grandfather John and great-great grandfather.
Everything about John Heysham Gibbon →- Occupation
- surgeon, physician, cardiac surgeon
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 29, 1903, 1903
- Died
- February 5, 1973, 1973