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Joseph Murray

Joseph Murray was an American surgeon renowned for his pioneering work in organ transplantation. In 1954, he and his colleague Donald Thomas successfully performed the world's first kidney transplant, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1960. more

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