
Joseph E. Murray
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Dr. Joseph E. Murray was an American surgeon who made history in 1954 by performing the world's first successful human organ transplant, a kidney transplant between identical twins. His groundbreaking work laid the foundation for modern transplant surgery and earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990.
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Joseph E. Murray performed the world’s first successful human organ transplant in 1954.
The gift of life: A visual history of organ transplantationCNN·
United States· 2025-05-18











