Person

Windsor, Harry (1914 - 1987)

Born: 1914
Died: 1987
Occupation: Cardiologist and Surgeon

Summary

Harry Windsor was cardiac surgeon at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney for many years and carried out the first (1968) heart transplant in Australia. He was mentor to renowned heart surgeon Victor Chang. Together they set about establishing a national heart transplant programme.

Colleague

Chang, Victor Peter (1936 - 1991)

Published resources

Books

Murray, James, Lifework: Heroes of Australian Health (Edgecliff, NSW: Focus Publishing for [Medical Benefits Fund of Australia Ltd], 1997), 160 pp. Details
Windsor, Harry, The Heart of a Surgeon: the Memoirs of Harry Windsor (Sydney: New South Wales University Press, 1988), 171 pp. Details

Book Sections

Carmody, John, 'Windsor, Henry (Harry) Matthew John (1914-1987), Cardiac Surgeon' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 18: 1981 - 1990 L-Z, Melanie Nolan, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2012), pp. 616-7. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/windsor-henry-matthew-john-harry-15874. Details

Resources

Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5673451. Details
VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/56457369. Details
'Windsor, Harry (19141027-19870320)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-493539. Details

Annette Alafaci

Created: 18 September 2006, Last modified: 7 February 2011

EOAS ID: biogs/P004736b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004736b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260