Born on 18 March 1878 at Streatham Hill, London, the only son of John Taylor, wine merchant of Dean Street, Tooley Street, London Bridge and Alice Miller Gordon daughter of William Gordon, stockbroker of Union Street, Aberdeen; he and his sister were taken by their mother to Aberdeen when their fath

Owen Harding Wangensteen, the son of a farmer, was born at Lake Park, Minnesota, USA, on 21 September 1885. He always wanted to become a farmer and was fond of relating how he decided to become a doctor instead. When he was a high school junior, he had the opportunity to help fifty of his father's s

Walter Campbell MacKenzie was born in 1909 in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. He went to school in Sydney and Baddeck and to Dalhousie University. He graduated BSc in 1929, MD, ChM in 1933 and was awarded the Malcolm Honour Society Medal as the outstanding graduate in his year. He was a resident at the Roya

Born in Chicago on 19 March 1883 son of Dr David W Graham (1843-1925), surgeon to the Presbyterian Hospital, and Ida Barnet Graham his wife, he was educated at Princeton and took his clinical training at Chicago, qualifying from Rush College in 1907. After holding resident posts at the Presbyterian

Jan Nuboer was born on 6 February 1900, in Batavia, now Djakarta, the son of a naval officer, who became a planter. He wrote many publications and achieved international renown in abdominal and lung surgery. He advocated a tube from the greater curvature when treating malignant disease of the stomac