Donald E. KING1903–1987

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Donald E. KING

1903–1987

Donald E. King was born in Porterville, California, on March 13, 1903. He received his BA from Stanford University in 1923 and his MD in 1927. After his internship at Stanford Univer- sity Hospitals, he completed his orthopedic train- ing under the tutelage of Dr. Carl Badgley at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he became assistant professor. After returning to Stanford University Hospitals in San Francisco as chief of orthopedic surgery, he developed the orthopedic residency program and served with distinction as chief and professor until the medical school moved to Palo Alto in 1959. Don King continued his inspirational teaching of orthopedic residents as chief of orthopedic service at Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center until 1978. He was a clinical professor of ortho- pedic surgery at both Stanford University Medical School and the University of California School of Medicine until his death.

Dr. King’s ability enthusiastically to distil the truth and crystallize the facts of a clinical problem inspired his students to become orthopedic sur- geons. His residents worshiped him and remem- ber with appreciation the outstanding examples he set, both in the operating room and in the care of patients. Dr. King’s practice was considerable, and his approach to patients was friendly and direct. Many patients continued to seek his advice long after he ceased performing surgery. He served as president of both the Western Orthope- dic Association and the American Board of Ortho-

Robert KIENBÖCK

1871–1953

Robert Kienböck was born in Vienna and was educated at the University of Vienna, qualifying in medicine in 1895. X-rays, discovered by Roentgen that same year, had immediate and dra- matic applications in medicine. After a brief post- graduate period in Paris and London, Kienböck returned to Vienna and specialized in this new field. He founded a private x-ray institute in 1899 and began contributing papers on both the diag- nostic and therapeutic applications of x-ray. He began lecturing on x-rays at the medical school in 1903 and became professor of radiology in 1917.

He had a special interest in the radiologic features

of bone diseases. He was one of the few pioneers

in radiology whose life was not shortened by the

effects of exposure to radiation.