Reflection on Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub: a pioneering cardiac surgeon.

摘要

i recently interviewed Prof. Yacoub to find out more of the events, inspiring characters and thought processes that have produced this determined and inspirational man, who welcomes and promotes the role that the Arts play in vital scientific developments. He much admires the sculpture of Antony Gormley who donated one of his works to the Heart Sciences Centre in London. Writing in The Guardian newspaper (2 February 2007), 'we need a lot of experts from different fields but we also need a lot of imagination and a lot of understanding of how form interacts with function. Art gives a lot of inspiration and beauty, and beauty is part of science'.