Artificial heart was named after its manager. Graduate student Robert Jarvik was the project manager for the artificial heart, which was subsequently renamed the Jarvik 7. In 1981, William DeVries submitted a request to the FDA for permission to implant the Jarvik 7 into a human being. On December 2, 1982, Kolff implanted the Jarvik 7 artificial heart into Barney Clark, a dentist from Seattle who was suffering from severe congestive heart failure. Clark lived for 112 days tethered to an external pneumatic compressor, a device weighing some , but during that time he suffered prolonged periods of confusion and a number
Jeanne Liotta to discover what their world is made of and what they think about it - to observe and take notes and reflect upon - that's our jobs as human beings somehow, that's what I feel like I'm doing when I make things. It's just my thinking." The artist's films have been shown at several film exhibitions, including: In 2008 Liotta won the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival for her film "Observando el cielo". Liotta's works can be found in a number of public institutions, including: Jeanne Liotta Jeanne Liotta (born 1960) is an American visual artist who is