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...born physicist. Anticipating the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens by nearly two centuries, he propounds the law of wave motion, suggesting that it is water's "percussive" force rather than water itself that is moving. Sketching a water drop splattering on a flat surface, he catches its precise, crownlike spray in a stop-action image that was not verified until Harold Edgerton's high-speed photography at M.I.T. Impressive too are his moral sensibilities. He mentions that he has invented an underwater breathing device, then notes that divers could use it to sneak up on enemy ships and sink them...
...CHRISTIAAN BARNARD, 73; Richmond, South Africa Former heart surgeon...
...wonders of modern medicine, none has captured the public imagination as fully as organ transplantation. Since 1967, when South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard kept 55-year-old Louis Washkansky alive for 18 additional days by giving him a heart taken from a 24-year-old woman killed in an auto accident, these spectacular feats of surgical legerdemain--often involving teams of physicians toiling meticulously for as long as 48 hours--have won headline coverage and created instant heroes of patients and doctors alike...
...Warwick Peacock was on Christiaan Barnard's original heart-transplant team in South Africa, but he eventually found heart transplants too routine to present sufficient challenge. In 1986 he came to ucla Medical Center to pioneer new techniques in brain surgery. Last May he faced an unusual challenge: a six-year-old girl suffering epileptic seizures so severe and unremitting that they could be relieved only by removal of part of her brain. First her brain was mapped by a positron-emission tomography scanner, a machine invented at ucla; then those readings were matched against others provided by a more...
...minute sermon, the Rev. Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naude said that although he was brought up to believe in apartheid, he gradually decided that the system conflicted fundamentally with Christian values...