Hamilton Naki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hamilton Naki

South African surgeon

Date of Birth: 26-Jun-1926

Place of Birth: Transkei, South Africa

Date of Death: 29-May-2005

Profession: surgeon

Nationality: South Africa

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Hamilton Naki (26 June 1926 – 29 May 2005) was a laboratory assistant to cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard in South Africa.
He was recognised for his surgical skills and for his ability to teach medical students and physicians such skills despite not having received a formal medical education, and took a leading role in organ transplant research on animals.A controversy arose after his death in that at least five periodicals and the Associated Press retracted statements in their obituaries of Naki that claimed that he participated in the world's first human-to-human heart transplantation in 1967; the incident has been cited as an example of inadequate fact checking by the newsmedia and delayed corrections of the errors.