who was Christiaan Barnard?
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After being in college for almost five years Christiaan Neethling Barnard got his Master’s Degree from the University of Cape Town in 1953.\n  In the year of 1954, Chritiaan Neethling Barnard preformed the first ever successful kidney transplant and by the year 1961, he was made the head of cardio-thoracic surgery at his university, making him to be known as Dr. Barnard.
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Rip Van Winkle is one of American author Washington Irving's two most famous short stories--the other being The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow.  Here is a link to the text of the story, plus a link about Irving and his works.
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Plato, I guess. the Question is too vague. Plato's geocentric system was refuted by Copernicus, but the Catholic Church refused to accept Copernicus's findings.
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I am not sure if the information is in there, but you should check out the link, a sort of books database on the internet. However, if you would like a detailed answer you probably should become a member first (Free) and then ask your question again in the forums.\n\nBut you can search first for James Joyce, then from the results you get you click on the name of the author. Under the author you click "Eveline" But there is no review yet.\nSo again, I advise to become a meber and check out the forums
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Humphrey Microscope.\n\nSeriously, it's usually credited to Leewenhoek.
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So Johann Kepler was a German astronomer, living between 1571-1630. He was the one who introduced the three laws of planetary motion. He worked and studied about the (elliptical) oval orbit, planets, and eclipse. He rivaled against the old beliefs on how the heavenly bodies moved in perfect circles...Well, he was one of those who questioned the church's beliefs an teachings. He thought of new ideas, observed things, and experiemented. The church/pope/Catholic and Protestants went against him, too. But those who began to think out of the box probably admired him or something.
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The cardinal. \nBecame so in 1943.\nPeople's choice.
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JEREMY BENTHAM\nEnglish jurist and philosopher\n(1748 - 1832)
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Jan Smuts\n\nField Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, OM, CH (May 24, 1870 – September 11, 1950) was a prominent South African and Commonwealth statesman and military leader. He served as a Boer General during the Boer War, a British General during the First World War and was appointed Field Marshal during the Second World War. \n\nIn addition to various Cabinet appointments, he served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 to 1924 and from 1939 to 1948. From 1917 to 1919 he was also one of five members of the British War Cabinet, helping to create the Royal Air Force. \n\nHe played a leading part in the post war settlements at the end of both world wars, and was one of the driving forces behind the formation of both the League of Nations in 1919 and the United Nations in 1945. \n\nAs the foremost spokesman from the Dominions and Colonies his advice was decisive in reshaping the British Empire into the British Commonwealth.\n\nA statue of Smuts stands outside the House of Commons in London.
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Age 41\n\nBen Jeapes (AKA Sebastian Rook) was born in 1965 in Belfast, Ireland. His boyhood was spent mostly in Cornwall and Dorset. In 1987, he began working for Jessica Kingsley Publishers in London. Four years later, he moved to Learned Information, an Oxford-based company that organises conferences and publishes journals. In 1997 he joined Isis Medical Media and worked there as a Developmental Editor until early 2000 when he left and began Big Engine. He is the author of such novels as Winged Chariot, His Majesty's Starship and The Ark.
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They had never met. She was dead. And 18 days later, he was too! The star they met under was Barnard's Star,\n\nYes, it was a heart transplant, the world's first, undertaken by Dr Christiaan Barnard on 3rd December 1967, Washansky died of pneumonia on Dec 21st, brought on by the immuno-suppressive drugs he was taking. The donor died in a Road Traffic Accident.
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i couldn't find any info on him\n\nI tried 3 search engines but got nothing. yahoo, google, ask.
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Do you mean Harry Dacre?\n\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dacre
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Full name is Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor\n\nHere's more info if you want it:
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I think you mean Desiderius Erasmus. He was a prominent Dutch humanist, theologian and philosopher who lived in the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Alfred Hershey\n\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/20465/hershey.html\n\nMartha Watson - are you sure this isn't Martha Chase?\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Chase
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The legend of the brave Dutch boy - by others thought to be named Hans Brinker - who supposedly put his finger in the dyke to prevent a flood, was actually a literary invention by the American writer Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge (1831-1905), who was born in New York.