Gollan Bubble Oxygenator

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Object Details

maker

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

Date made

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

Data Source

National Museum of American History

Subject

Surgery

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-972b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID

nmah_1213068