Joseph Murray
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1919 – 2012
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Who was Joseph Murray?
Joseph Edward Murray was an American plastic surgeon who performed the first successful human kidney transplant on identical twins Richard and Ronald Herrick on December 23, 1954.
Murray shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 with E. Donnall Thomas for their discoveries concerning "organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease."
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- Born
- Apr 1, 1919
Milford - Also known as
- Joseph E. Murray
- Joseph Edward Murray
- Spouses
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard Medical School
- College of the Holy Cross
- Employment
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Lived in
- Massachusetts
- Milford
- Wellesley
- Died
- Nov 26, 2012
Boston
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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