Noel Pizey was born on 19 December 1922. He trained in medicine at St Thomas's Hospital, where he qualified in 1946. After junior posts he specialised in radiotherapy, becoming senior registrar in the department of radiotherapy at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and senior radiotherapy and surgic

Alfred Jones (Jim) Evans was born in Llanelli, Wales, on 13 August 1916. His father, Owen Garnon, was a meat purveyor and his mother Cicely Frances, née Evans, was a schoolmistress. He was educated at Christ College, Brecon, and St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, qualifying MRCS, LRCP in 1941. He serve

Edward ‘Terry’ S Perkins was a renowned British-American ophthalmologist and researcher in the United Kingdom, Kenya and the United States of America who made many contributions in ophthalmology. He was born on 15 October 1919, in London to Edward Walter Perkins and Gertrude Fanny Perkins née Price.