Physician

Joseph Murray

1919 - 2012

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Joseph Murray was a physician born in 1919 in , which is now part of modern day Milford, Massachusetts, United States. Joseph Murray died at 93 years old in NaN.

His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2024). Joseph Murray is the 53rd most popular physician (up from 177th in 2024), 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 726Before 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 11Before 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 11Before 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 20,380Before 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).

Among Physicians In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Joseph Murray ranks 3Before 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).