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Joseph Murray

1919 - 2012

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Joseph Edward Murray (April 1, 1919 – November 26, 2012) was an American plastic surgeon who is known as the "father of transplantation" for major milestones in the field of transplantation, including performing the first successful human kidney transplant, defining brain death, the organization of the first international conference on human kidney transplants and founding of the National Kidney Registry, the forerunner of the current United Network Of Organ Sharing (UNOS). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Murray has received more than 263,396 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Joseph Murray is the 177th most popular physician (down from 129th in 2019), the 1,421st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,062nd in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Physician.

Joseph Murray is most famous for being the first person to successfully perform a human organ transplant.

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  • 260k

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  • 60.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Joseph Murray ranks 177 out of 726. Before him are Charaka, Frederick Griffith, Kitasato Shibasaburō, Mehriban Aliyeva, Michael Stuart Brown, and Dominique Jean Larrey. After him are Alexander Bogdanov, Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Magnus Hirschfeld, Bernardo Houssay, Alan Hodgkin, and August von Wassermann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Joseph Murray ranks 52. Before him are Elisabeth Volkenrath, Siad Barre, Donald J. Cram, Chavela Vargas, Martin Balsam, and William Lipscomb. After him are Daniel Bell, Mohamed Boudiaf, Ashraf Pahlavi, Hermine Braunsteiner, Ryszard Kaczorowski, and Art Blakey. Among people deceased in 2012, Joseph Murray ranks 65. Before him are Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., Etta James, Chavela Vargas, Rodney King, Helmut Haller, and Bingu wa Mutharika. After him are Harry Harrison, Renato Dulbecco, Chaleo Yoovidhya, Chris Marker, David Kelly, and Warda Al-Jazairia.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Murray ranks 1,421 out of 20,380. Before him are Florence Griffith Joyner (1959), Martha Gellhorn (1908), Sondra Locke (1944), Douglas McGregor (1906), Tony Burton (1937), and Ellery Harding Clark (1874). After him are Aaron Burr (1756), Thomas Schelling (1921), Hal Holbrook (1925), George Smoot (1945), Joshua Lederberg (1925), and Henry Rollins (1961).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Joseph Murray ranks 20. Before him are Harvey J. Alter (1935), E. Donnall Thomas (1920), George H. Hitchings (1905), George Whipple (1878), Robin Cook (1940), and Michael Stuart Brown (1941). After him are Louis Ignarro (1941), Peter Agre (1949), Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), Patch Adams (1945), Randy Schekman (1948), and Henry Heimlich (1920).

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