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Joseph Murray [1919-2012] American

Rank: 106
Scientist, Surgeon

Joseph Edward Murray 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.

Morning, Society, Success, Work

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My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the 'National Geographic.'		101
Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet.	Society	102
Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.	Morning, Work	103
If you're going to worry about what people say, you're never going to make any progress.		104
Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.	Success	105
To the patient, any operation is momentous.		106
Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean.		107
You cannot stop the human mind from working.		108
I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.		109
At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon.		110
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.		111
The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?		112
Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.		113
Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful.		114
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.		115
I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.		116

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