Clifford Kwan-Gett
Australian-born Chinese American engineer, physician, and artificial heart pioneer
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Clifford Kwan-Gett's Degrees
- Bachelors Mechanical Engineering University of California, Berkeley
- Doctorate Medicine Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Clifford Stanley Kwan-Gett is an Australian-born Chinese American engineer, physician, and artificial heart pioneer. Kwan-Gett was born as Clifford Gett in 1934 in Emmaville, New South Wales, a small tin mining town in the Australian bush. His father Walter Gett owned the Yow Sing & Co. General Store in Emmaville. Kwan-Gett was the eighth of ten children and the first in his family to attend college. At the University of Sydney, while a resident in Wesley College, he obtained degrees in Science and Engineering and later in Medicine. He married Joo Een Tan, then adopted his Chinese family name by changing his surname from Gett to Kwan-Gett.
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