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Nobel-winning surgeon Joseph E. Murray dies

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Since the first kidney transplants on identical twins, hundreds of thousands of transplants on a variety of organs have been performed worldwide. Murray shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 with Dr. E. Donnall Thomas, who won for his work in bone marrow transplants. "Kidney transplants seem so routine now," Murray told The New York Times after he won the Nobel. "But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean." Murray's breakthroughs did not come without criticism, from ethicists and religious leaders. Some people "felt that we were playing God and that we shouldn't be doing all of these, quote, experiments on human beings," he told The Associated Press in a 2004 interview in which he also spoke out in favor of stem cell research. In the early 1950s, there had never been a successful human organ transplant.

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Murray

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0.0391832	"Work is a prayer," he told the Harvard University Gazette in 2001. "And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator."
0.0824704	"They often say ... that they are happy to have played some small part in the eventual success of organ transplants," he said, ...
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Disambiguation: AwardNominee | AwardWinnerReferences:

• Les Murray (poet)
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Ronald Herrick

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Richard Herrick

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Dr. E. Donnall Thomas

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Richard

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Ronald

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Brigham

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HealthCondition: kidney failure

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Doctor who performed the world's first successful kidney transplant died at age 93 after suffering a stroke on Thanksgiving

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