Harold Thomas was a consultant urologist in Sydney, Australia. As a result of his American experience, when he trained with Roger W Barnes in California, he was able to make a significant contribution to the development of urological practice in Australia. Harold was born into a humble family in

Mahmoud Booz was one of the first specialist orthopaedic surgeons in the Arab world. He was born in a small village in the Sharkiya province of Egypt on 6 June 1926. He completed his basic and high school education in Cairo and then joined the medical school at Cairo University (Kasr Alainy). In his