There never was one. Hundreds of researchers all over the world
worked for centuries on measuring the speed of light, and it was
known within 2% of the presently defined value, 20 years before
the Nobel Prizes were ever created.
The fact that light had speed was well known as far back as the ancient Greeks. However it would not be until modern times that equipment was sensitive enough to deduce with a margin or error, something close to the accepted value.
In 1983 at the Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures an exact value for the speed of light in a vacuum was set at 299,792.458 m/s [See Link]
Jean Bernard Leon Foucault of France in the 1800's was the first to successfully measure the speed of light.
Albert Abraham Michelson in 1907
1952
god sent him the image
The first successful expedition to circumnavigate the globe was Ferdinand Magellan. The Portuguese explorer sailed around the Earth from 1519 to 1522.
Dec. 23, 1954, the first successful long-term transplant of a human organ was performed by Dr. Joseph Murray in Boston. It was a kidney transplant between identical twins, Ronald and Richard Herrick. Richard died in 1962 from a recurrence of his original kidney disease in the transplanted kidney. December 3, 1967, South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard conducted the first heart transplant on 53-year-old Lewis Washkansky. He died 8 days later from complications of the medications to suppress his immune system.
It was successful because they had help from the Indians. :]
The first successful nephrectomy (the surgical removal of a kidney) was performed by Gustav Simon. Simon performed the surgery on August 2nd, 1869 in Heidelberg, German.
1952
Eratosthenes
George haas
dr.k.m cherian
Canada's first successful kidney transplant between identical twins was in 1958.
The first successful kidney transplant was performed to the Herrick twins in 1954.
I believe it was Dr. KM Cherian.
The first lung transplant was attempted by Dr. Hardy at the University of Mississippi in 1964. This was not a successful procedure. The first long-term success with single lung transplantation was performed by the team at the University of Toronto Thoracic Surgery Group in Toronto, Canada (at the Toronto General Hospital) in 1983. The Toronto group also performed the first successful double lung transplant in 1986. Prior to that, the Stanford University group performed the first successful heart-lung transplant.
James W. Black
Dr. Christian Bernard
Daniel Hale Williams.