Jan F. Esser Champion, winning the Dutch Championship in a play-off match for the title against Rudolf Loman in 1913. Jan F. Esser Johannes "Jan" Fredericus Samuel Esser (13 October 1877 in Leiden – 9 August 1946 in Chicago) was a Dutch plastic surgeon who pioneered innovative methods of reconstructive surgery on soldiers wounded in the First World War. He is thought to have coined the term "stent" in 1917 to describe his use of a dental impression compound invented in 1856 by the English dentist Charles Stent (1807–1885) to create a form for facial reconstruction. The term "stent" was later extended to
Charles Drew (surgeon) Charles Drew (surgeon) Charles Edwin Drew (15 December 1916 – 31 May 1987) was a cardiothoracic surgeon best known for assisting Sir Clement Price Thomas in King George VI's pneumonectomy in 1951. He went on to conduct pioneering research on profound hypothermia in cardiac surgery and what came to be known as the 'Drew technique'. Drew died from throat cancer at the age of 70 in 1987, leaving his wife Maureen and two children. Born in Lambeth, 15 December 1916, as the eldest son of Edwin Frank Drew, an accountant, and Eunice (née Lloyd-Davies), Drew started his education in Stockwell.