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Harry Buncke

A person wearing glasses and a blue medical uniform with a stethoscope around their neck stands against a dark background.

An American plastic surgeon widely considered the father of microsurgery. In the 1960s, Buncke developed early microsurgical instruments in his garage, drilling microscopic holes into wire to manufacture his own needles. He performed early replantation experiments on rhesus monkeys and was instrumental in bringing the technique from the laboratory into clinical human practice.

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