Umakkant Tribhuvan Purohit was an orthopaedic surgeon at the Elyria Memorial Hospital, Ohio, USA. He was born in Nairobi, Kenya on 10 August 1936, the fifth child and fourth son of Tribhuvan Purohit, a clerk, and Kamlagauri Purohit. He was educated at the Duke of Gloucester School in Nairobi, and th

James Rodway Kirkpatrick was a professor of surgery at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. He was born on 27 June 1927 in Dundee. Both of his parents, Henry Joseph Rodway Fitzpatrick and Nora Fitzpatrick née Lister, were doctors. He had a twin brother, John Lister Kirkpatrick, who became a