Nicholas Coe was associate director of surgical education at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts and a professor of surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine. He was born in Surrey on 8 May 1946, the son of Stuart Coe and Joan Coe née Whittley. He attended school in Abingdon and

Selim Mellick, universally known as Sam, was a legendary surgeon. He was born in Innisfail in north Queensland and was Dux of both his local primary school and his high school the All Souls School in Charters Towers. He graduated from the University of Queensland with first class honours in medic

Colonel David C Wherry was a professor of surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, Maryland. He was born on 18 December 1926, in Pawnee City, Nebraska, the son of Kenneth Spicer Wherry and Marjorie Wherry née Colwell. His father was an important politica

Harris B Shumacker was chairman of the department of surgery at Indiana University and a pioneer of cardiovascular surgery. He was born on 20 May 1908 in Laurel, Mississippi, the son of Harris Blumenthal Shumacker and Corinne Selma Shumacker née Teller. He attended the University of Tennessee at Cha

Derek Berg was born in 1926 in Hong Kong, where his father was a shipping broker and Norwegian Consul-General. His Australian mother Constance died of cerebral malaria just before his third birthday, and Derek was sent to live with his aunt in Adelaide. His father remarried and he returned to Hong K