As a medical student in Hungary in the 1940s, George Berci wasn’t satisfied simply to master surgical techniques. He was ...

George Berci, a surgeon who revolutionized the modern operating room by developing the tools and techniques of laparoscopy, a ...

As a Jew growing up in Hungary after it joined the Axis alliance, George Berci was barred from medical school, so he became an apprentice in an electrical shop and studied mechanical engineering.

George Berci, who has died aged 103, was a Hungarian Jew who escaped the Holocaust and later pioneered minimally invasive or “keyhole” surgery, developing laparoscopic and other endoscopic ...