Abdallah Shukry Mishrick was a senior consultant surgeon at Syosset and Plainview hospitals on Long Island, New York. He was born in Lebanon on 28 November 1928, the son of Shukry Abdallah Mishrick, a doctor, and Matilda Mishrick née Fernainy. He was educated at the English Mission College, Cairo, E

Thomas Earl Starzl was a pioneering transplant surgeon. Known as the *Father of transplantation* he carried out the first successful human liver transplant in 1967. Born on 11 March 1926 in LeMars, Iowa, he was the second son of Roman (Rome) Frederick Starzl and his wife Anna Laura née Fitzgerald. H