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Joseph Murray was an American surgeon who pioneered organ transplantation and won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 for his work. His breakthroughs in transplant surgery, particularly kidney transplants, fundamentally changed medicine by making it possible to save lives through organ replacement.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1990
“for their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease”
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Joseph
- Family name
- Murray
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Milford
- Place of death
- Boston
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- Harvard University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral student
- Harvard University
- Field of work
- transplantology
- Conflict
- World War II
- Residence
- Wellesley
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- date of birth
- 1919-04-01
- date of death
- 2012-11-26
- name in native language
- Joseph Edward Murray
- interested in
- surgery
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Encyclopedic overview
Joseph Edward Murray (April 1, 1919 – November 26, 2012) was an American plastic surgeon who was awarded 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."
Murray is known as the "father of transplantation" for major milestones in the field of transplantation, including performing the first successful human kidney transplant, defining brain death, organizing the first international conference on human kidney transplants, and founding the National Kidney Registry, the forerunner of the current United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS).
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