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Martinus "Martin" Spoor was born in Media, Pa., on March 14, 1970, to Johan, a Dutch engineer, and Susan, a U.S.-born stay-at-home mother. When Martin was a year old, Johan's work took the Spoors to the Netherlands, where they lived in a tiny farming town outside Rotterdam. Thijs, another son, arrived a year later. Martin was 7 when the family moved to Calgary, where teachers wondered at the odd way he spoke: English words plugged into Dutch grammar. But it would not be long before he conquered scholarship.
Dr. Spoor was one of four medical specialists and two pilots on board a Cessna Citation when it crashed into Lake Michigan on June 5, 2007. The donor team was transporting various human organs from Milwaukee to a patient in critical condition in the Detroit-area of Michigan.
