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  "en": "Alivizatos, 'Sir Magdi H. Yacoub, the Leonardo da Vinci of cardiac surgery' (Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 2019)"
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  "ar": "مقالة سيرية محكّمة لبيتر أليفيزاتوس عن السير مجدي يعقوب في مجلة مركز بيلور الطبي الجامعي (2019)؛ تصفه في متنها بأنه «مصري وقبطي مسيحي» شخصيًا، وتعرض صداقتهما المهنية منذ 1982 ومسيرة يعقوب في لندن وهيرفيلد.",
  "en": "Peter A. Alivizatos's peer-reviewed biographical article on Sir Magdi Yacoub in Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings (2019); its background section describes Yacoub in its own words as 'an Egyptian and a Christian Copt', and it traces their professional acquaintance since 1982 and Yacoub's career in London and at Harefield."
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  "title": "Sir Magdi H. Yacoub, the Leonardo da Vinci of cardiac surgery",
  "author": [
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    "family": "Alivizatos",
    "given": "Peter A."
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  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
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     2019,
     1,
     24
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  "publisher": "Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings 32(1) (2019), pp. 146–151",
  "URL": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6442908/",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Scholarly journal article (Bayl Univ Med Cent Proc. 2019;32(1):146–151; PMC6442908), read in full on 2 November 2026. Its background section states of the man himself: 'Magdi Yacoub (\"M.Y.\" to his colleagues), an Egyptian and a Christian Copt (b. 1935), came to England to train as a surgeon in 1962'. This is a person-level attestation in an independent text, and with the English article's lead it settles his record's christian value under the lane's two-text rule.",
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