Time magazine named Lindbergh its first Man of the Year for 1927. President Herbert Hoover appointed him to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1929 and he received the Congressional Gold Medal in 1930. In 1931, he and French surgeon Alexis Carrel began work on inventing the first perfusion pump, a device credited with making future heart surgeries and organ transplantation possible.
Time magazine named Lindbergh its first Man of the Year for 1927 President Herbert Hoover appointed him to the National Advis.ory Committee for Aeronautics in 1929 and he received the Congressional Gold Medal in 1930. In 1931, he and French surgeon Alexis Carrel began work on inventing the first perfusion pump, a device credited with making future heart surgeries and organ transplantation possible.