Güngör Sami Çakırgil was born in Ankara in 1931. He finished Ankara Medical School in 1954. After 1966, he visited a lot of country for education and scientific courses. He was a worldwide famous Orthopaedic surgeon because of his radical reduction procedure for congenital hip dislocation. But, he was a real frontiers of spinal surgery in Turkey.
Keywords: Güngör Sami Çakırgil, radical reduction, spinal fractures, scoliosis.