Object Details
- Frank Gallon
- Pyrex
- Description
- Bubble oxygenator designed by Leland C. Clark (1918-2005), an American biochemist who worked in Ohio and Alabama; and Frank Gollan (1909-1988), a Czech physician who fled the Nazis and found a home in Tennessee and Ohio.
- Ref: Robert S. Litwak, “Leland C. Clark and Frank Gollan: bubble oxygenators and perfusion hypothermia,” The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 74 (2002): 612-614.
- “ICED BLOOD USED IN HEART SURGERY,” New York Times (April 18, 1959), p. 16.
- “Dr. Frank Gollan, 78; Isolated the Polio Virus,” New York Times (Oct. 10, 1988), p. B8.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Edwards Lifesciences, LLC
- 1952
- ID Number
- 2002.0151.13
- accession number
- 2002.0151
- catalog number
- 2002.0151.13
- Object Name
- Oxygenator
- Measurements
- overall: 25.5 cm x 63 cm x 23 cm; 10 1/16 in x 24 13/16 in x 9 1/16 in
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Surgery
- Record ID
- nmah_1213068
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-972b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
