Gollan Bubble Oxygenator
date: label: Date made
content: 1952
name: label: maker
content: Frank Gallon
label: maker
content: Pyrex
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: Ref: Robert S. Litwak, “Leland C. Clark and Frank Gollan: bubble oxygenators and perfusion hypothermia,” The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 74 (2002): 612-614.
label: Description
content: “ICED BLOOD USED IN HEART SURGERY,” New York Times (April 18, 1959), p. 16.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Frank Gollan, 78; Isolated the Polio Virus,” New York Times (Oct. 10, 1988), p. B8.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Surgery
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Edwards Lifesciences, LLC
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0151.13
label: accession number
content: 2002.0151
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0151.13
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Oxygenator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 25.5 cm x 63 cm x 23 cm; 10 1/16 in x 24 13/16 in x 9 1/16 in