About
American plastic surgeon who performed the first successful human kidney transplant. He performed the kidney transplant on identical twins Richard and Ronald Herrick.
Before Fame
He got a medical degree from Harvard and did an internship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
Trivia
He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990.
Family Life
He was born to William A. and Mary Murray and grew up in Milford, Massachusetts.
Associated With
While he worked on kidney transplants, Norman Shumway pioneered heart transplant techniques.
