Joseph E. Murray

What the film says

• Placed the donor kidney in Richard Herrick in 1954 and later received the Nobel Prize.

  Watch 58:33 in the film X. Without the Knife

On the timeline

• 23 December 1954: At the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Harrison removes Ronald Herrick's kidney and Murray transplants it into his identical twin Richard. timeline
• 1990: Murray shares the Nobel Prize with E. Donnall Thomas; his Nobel lecture is given on 8 December. timeline

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