Hugh Hampton Young-father of modern American urology.

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Joseph Lister was the pioneer of antiseptic surgery (Fig. 1). In the late 19th century, postoperative sepsis accounted for the death of almost half of the patients undergoing major surgery. Building on the work of Pasteur, Lister promoted the use of carbolic acid when operating. Antiseptic surgery became the norm and earned him the title ‘Father of Modern Surgery’. Just as antiseptic surgery re...

Legends in urology.

I was born and raised in Brooklyn New York, in a warm and loving middle class family. My family, their values and my career are intertwined; and are a reflection of my DNA, the environment that shaped me and the decisions that I made during my journey. My mother gave me empathy and passion, and my father the calm, cool, fearlessness that shaped my nature. As a young couple my parents lost their...

Heroic Medicine

Nearly 60 years after he died, surgeons from around the world still honour the memory of Sir Robert Jones, the father of modern British orthopaedics. Sir Robert lived and worked at a time when crippled children were a common sight on Britain's streets, and one of his greatest achievements was to show that many of these children-the victims chiefly of tuberculosis, rickets, and poliomyelitis-cou...

The many worlds of Hugh Everett.

December 20 07 Hugh Everett III was a brilliant mathematician, an iconoclastic quantum theorist and, later, a successful defense contractor with access to the nation’s most sensitive military secrets. He introduced a new conception of reality to physics and influenced the course of world history at a time when nuclear Armageddon loomed large. To science-fiction aficionados, he remains a folk he...

Edoardo Bassini (1844-1924): father of modern-day hernia surgery.