"Hamilton Naki, a laborer who became a self-taught surgeon of such skill that Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard chose him to assist in the world's first human heart transplant in 1967, but whose contribution was kept secret for three decades because he was a black man in apartheid-era South Africa, died on May 29 at his home in Langa, near Cape Town. He was believed to have been 78." Thank you Mr. Naki for all of your contributions and inspiration! Please click the link below and learn more about Hamilton Naki. :-)http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/11/obituaries/11naki.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAuwMJbUNk
Barnard was quoted as saying "If Hamilton had had the opportunity to study, he would probably have become a brilliant surgeon" and that Naki was "one of the great researchers of all time in the field of heart transplants"
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