Sir Robert also hit the headlines in 1896 when he became the first doctor to use X-rays to diagnose a fracture, and was the co-founder of the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Gobowen, Shropshire.
Few people know that when Robert Ballard discovered the wreck of the Titanic in 1985, he was on a U.S. Navy mission to hunt down a nuclear submarine lost during the Cold War.