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Joseph Murray

1919 - 2012

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Joseph Edward Murray (April 1, 1919 – November 26, 2012) was an American plastic surgeon who 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). As of 2013, more than one million patients were estimated to have benefitted from organ transplantation around the world. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Murray is the 53rd most popular physician (up from 177th in 2019), the 462nd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,421st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Physician.

Joseph Murray is most famous for being the first person to successfully perform a human organ transplant.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Joseph Murray ranks 53 out of 726. Before him are Peter Damian, Polycarp, Otto Fritz Meyerhof, Ronald Ross, Alexis Carrel, and Emil von Behring. After him are Peter C. Doherty, Gabor Maté, Emil Kraepelin, Emil Theodor Kocher, Charles Nicolle, and Thutmose IV.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Joseph Murray ranks 11. Before him are Edmund Hillary, J. D. Salinger, Primo Levi, I. K. Gujral, Doris Lessing, and Kim Jong-suk. After him are G. E. M. Anscombe, Giulio Andreotti, Choi Kyu-hah, Zhao Ziyang, Moïse Tshombe, and William Lipscomb. Among people deceased in 2012, Joseph Murray ranks 11. Before him are Norodom Sihanouk, Ray Bradbury, F. Sherwood Rowland, Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., I. K. Gujral, and Rita Levi-Montalcini. After him are Yitzhak Shamir, Ahmed Ben Bella, Theo Angelopoulos, George Tupou V, Eric Hobsbawm, and Michael Clarke Duncan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Murray ranks 462 out of 20,380. Before him are Edward Drinker Cope (1840), Man Ray (1890), Millard Fillmore (1800), David Rockefeller (1915), Robert Zemeckis (1952), and Joe Dassin (1938). After him are Oliver Hardy (1892), Sylvia Plath (1932), Melinda Gates (1964), Kurt Cobain (1967), Ella Fitzgerald (1917), and James B. Sumner (1887).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Joseph Murray ranks 3. Before him are Anthony Fauci (1940), and Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923). After him are William P. Murphy (1892), Harvey Cushing (1869), Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916), George Minot (1885), Michael DeBakey (1908), Harvey J. Alter (1935), Herbert Spencer Gasser (1888), Stanley Cohen (1922), and Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925).

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