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Dr. Clarence Dennis - The Heart-Lung Machine (PDF)
Dr. Raymond Damadian - Origionlatoe of the concept of whole-body NMR Scanning (MRI) (PDF)
Dr.Eli Friedman and the Compact Travel Dialysis System (suitecase Kidney) (PDF)
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