Philip Blaiberg

Philip Blaiberg ( born May 24, 1909 in South Africa; † August 17, 1969 in Cape Town) was a South African dentist.

Blaiberg was the second man on the - on January 2, 1968 -, a heart transplant by Christiaan Barnard at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, was carried out. The donor was a 24 -year-old colored South Africans Clive Haupt. Blaiberg survived the heart transplant 18 months.

The world's first heart transplant on a human was also conducted on 3 December 1967 by Barnard to the patient Louis Washkansky.

Next Adrian Kantrowitz had transplanted heart of a child in New York shortly after Barnard's first operation; However, the child survived only a few hours.