Joseph Edward Murray Biographical File
Abstract
Biographical file includes a VUMC reporter article
Dates
- Creation: 1993 - 1993
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Historical or Biographical Note
Joseph Edward Murray, M.D., D.Sc., served as a visiting professor for the Vanderbilt Transplant Center's second Shumway Lectureship Endowmen Series program in 1993. Murray, a Nobel laureate, performed the first successful human renal transplant in 1954. He also performed the first successful kidney transplant just two years after he was board certified in general surgery.
Full Extent
0.01 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Joseph Edward Murray (b.1919) biographical file
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by EBL Special Collections Staff
- Date
- 2010-06-30
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is inEnglish.
Repository Details
Part of the VUMC Historical Images and Biographies Repository
Eskind Biomedical Library
2209 Garland Ave.
Nashville TN 37232
historyofmedicine@vanderbilt.edu
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