Joseph Edward Murray (born 1 April 1919) is a retired American plastic surgeon. He performed the first successful human kidney transplant from an adult to his identical twin in 1954.
Murray won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 for work on organ and cell transplantation.
Murray was born the son of William A. Murray and Mary DePasquale and grew up in Milford, MA. He was a star athlete at the Milford High School. Murray excelled in ...
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Joseph Edward Murray (born 1 April 1919) is a retired American plastic surgeon. He performed the first successful human kidney transplant from an adult to his identical twin in 1954.
Murray won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 for work on organ and cell transplantation.
Murray was born the son of William A. Murray and Mary DePasquale and grew up in Milford, MA. He was a star athlete at the Milford High School. Murray excelled in football, ice hockey, baseball. Upon graduation, Murray attended the College of the Holy Cross and was prepared to play baseball. The baseball practices and medical labs were scheduled at the same time, so Murray was forced to give up baseball. Murray later attended Harvard Medical School. After graduating from medical school, Murray joined the US Army where he studied surgery at Valley Forge General Hospital in Pennsylvania.
In 2001, Murray published his autobiography, Surgery Of The Soul: Reflections on a Curious Career, which doubles as a...
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