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Joseph Murray

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At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon.


— Joseph Murray


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Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.


— Joseph Murray


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I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The order in the universe seemed miraculous.


— Joseph Murray


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I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.


— Joseph Murray


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I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.


— Joseph Murray


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If you're going to worry about what people say, you're never going to make any progress.


— Joseph Murray


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It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago.


— Joseph Murray


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Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean.


— Joseph Murray


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Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet.


— Joseph Murray


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Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful.


— Joseph Murray


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About Joseph Murray






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Upon graduation Murray attended the College of the Holy Cross intending to play baseball; however baseball practices and lab schedules conflicted forcing him to give up the sport. Murray shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 with E. He received the American Surgical Association's Medal for DistinguiJoseph Murrayd Service to Surgery the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' Francis Amory Prize the American Association of Plastic Surgeons' Honorary Award and Clinician of the Year Award and the National Kidney Foundation's Gift of Life Award.

Joseph Edward Murray (April 1 1919 – November 26 2012) was an American plastic surgeon who performed the first successful human kidney transplant on identical twins Richard and Ronald Herrick on December 23 1954. Murray shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 with E. ".

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