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1. Adrian Kantrowitz at a press conference following Haskell Shanks discharge from the Sinai Hospital of Detroit

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2. Willem Kolff and Adrian Kantrowitz at the July 1993 International Society for Artificial Organs (ISAO)/European Society for Artificial Organs (ESAO) Meeing in Amsterdam, Holland

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3. Adrian Kantrowitz at the May 1996 American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) Meeting in Washington, DC

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4. Portrait of Adrian Kantrowitz (in suit)

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5. Portrait of Adrian Kantrowitz (in suit)

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6. Portrait of Adrian Kantrowitz (in light-colored suit)

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7. Implantation of the first permanent partial mechanical heart

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8. Adrian Kantrowitz with brother Arthur and their father Bernard Abraham

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9. Adrian Kantrowitz on sailboat

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10. Adrian Kantrowitz with daughter Niki (8 months)

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11. Self-Portrait of Adrian Kantrowitz

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12. Adrian Kantrowitz with Yuki Nose and Kazuhiko Atsumi at the April 1979 American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) Conference

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13. Adrian Kantrowitz with research dog Ruff

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14. Adrian Kantrowitz with grandson

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15. Adrian Kantrowitz with Yuki Nose

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16. Portrait of Adrian Kantrowitz (sitting)

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17. Architectural floor plan of Maimonides Hospital's Medical Research Building - Fourth Floor

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18. Adrian Kantrowitz and OR team at Louise Ceraso operation

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19. Doctors in front of doctor's board, pre-op

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20. Doctors' discussion

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21. Control panel and monitoring unit for Kantrowitz-AVCO mechanical auxiliary ventricle at operation

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22. Adrian Kantrowitz positioning the mechanical auxiliary ventricle into patient's chest

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23. Doctors masked and ready, outside the operating room

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24. Adrian Kantrowitz, looking up during infant heart transplant

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25. Metal basin with donor heart

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26. Surgeons working over baby

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27. During surgery

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28. Haskell Shanks waving as he is discharged from Sinai Hospital of Detroit

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29. Adrian Kantrowitz and other attendees at the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) President's Reception

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30. Tired surgeons outside the operating room

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31. Jean and Adrian Kantrowitz with Minoru and Madam Toyoda

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32. Adrian Kantrowitz holding the 1993 Barney Clark Award at the April 1993 American Society for Artificial Organs (ASAIO) Meeting in New Orleans

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33. C. Walton Lillehei, Christiaan Barnard, Adrian Kantrowitz, and Yasunori Koga with the dog Eterna

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34. First design of booster-heart electronic control circuits

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35. Doctor checking on baby

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36. Adrian Kantrowitz (age 12) playing the violin

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37. Adrian Kantrowitz in Army uniform with medals

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38. Adrian Kantrowitz (age 10) in sailor suit

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39. Adrian Kantrowitz and colleagues with new LVAD model

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40. Adrian Kantrowitz and his wife Jean with former research fellows from Japan

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41. Adrian Kantrowitz with longtime colleague Paul S. Freed, relaxing in Kantrowitz's backyard

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42. Adrian Kantrowitz with Christiaan Barnard

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43. Adrian Kantrowitz lecturing in Bogota, Colombia

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44. Adrian Kantrowitz with Japanese colleagues

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45. Adrian Kantrowitz in lab with assistants making a film of the mitral valve in situ

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46. Adrian Kantrowitz in lab with assistants making a film of the mitral valve in situ

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47. Kantrowitz with LVAD research group discussing 3rd LVAD model

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48. Adrian Kantrowitz implanting a pacemaker

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49. Adrian Kantrowitz in dog lab during development of first LVAD

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50. Architectural floor plan of Maimonides Hospital's Medical Research Building - Second Floor

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51. Architectural floor plan of Maimonides Hospital's Medical Research Building - First Floor

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52. Architectural floor plan of Maimonides Hospital's Medical Research Building - Third Floor

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53. Architectural floor plan of Maimonides Hospital's Medical Research Building - Cellar Floor

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54. Portrait of Adrian Kantrowitz (in lab coat)

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55. Baby heart transplant recipient, pre-op, resting in ice basin

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56. Open chest during transplantation surgery

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57. Doctor checking baby in incubator

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58. Doctors leaning over baby receiving heart transplant

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59. Doctor holding donor heart

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60. Dr. Kantrowitz looking at heart transplant recipient

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61. Observers in the operating room during surgery

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62. Adrian Kantrowitz wearing operating mask

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63. Working with the donor heart over basin

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64. Doctors outside of the operating room

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65. During surgery

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