1919 - 2012
Joseph Edward Murray (April 1, 1919 – November 26, 2012) 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Murray has received more than 188,825 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Murray is the 143rd most popular physician (down from 131st in 2019), the 1,194th most popular biography from United States (down from 959th in 2019) and the 10th 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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Among physicians, Joseph Murray ranks 143 out of 509. Before him are Joseph Erlanger, Kitasato Shibasaburō, Dominique Jean Larrey, Theodor Billroth, Baruj Benacerraf, and Robin Warren. After him are André Frédéric Cournand, Edgar Adrian, Albert of Riga, Virginia Apgar, Ctesias, and Louis Ignarro.
1874 - 1965
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 137
1853 - 1931
HPI: 69.88
Rank: 138
1766 - 1842
HPI: 69.87
Rank: 139
1829 - 1894
HPI: 69.84
Rank: 140
1920 - 2011
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 141
1937 - Present
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 142
1919 - 2012
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 143
1895 - 1988
HPI: 69.75
Rank: 144
1889 - 1977
HPI: 69.73
Rank: 145
1165 - 1229
HPI: 69.66
Rank: 146
1909 - 1974
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 147
440 BC - 400 BC
HPI: 69.59
Rank: 148
1941 - Present
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 149
Among people born in 1919, Joseph Murray ranks 44. Before him are James M. Buchanan, Mordechai Anielewicz, Ian Smith, Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, Oleg Penkovsky, and Chavela Vargas. After him are Jennifer Jones, Georges Duby, Art Blakey, Martin Balsam, Liberace, and Lauri Törni. Among people deceased in 2012, Joseph Murray ranks 50. Before him are Miguel de la Madrid, Sergey Sokolov, George Armitage Miller, Chavela Vargas, Carl Woese, and Etta James. After him are Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen, Lucio Dalla, Andrew Huxley, Harry Harrison, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, and Paul L. Smith.
1919 - 2013
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 38
1919 - 1943
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 39
1919 - 2007
HPI: 70.13
Rank: 40
1919 - 1983
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 41
1919 - 1963
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 42
1919 - 2012
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 43
1919 - 2012
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 44
1919 - 2009
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 45
1919 - 1996
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 46
1919 - 1990
HPI: 69.36
Rank: 47
1919 - 1996
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 48
1919 - 1987
HPI: 68.83
Rank: 49
1919 - 1965
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 50
1934 - 2012
HPI: 70.11
Rank: 44
1911 - 2012
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 45
1920 - 2012
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 46
1919 - 2012
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 47
1928 - 2012
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 48
1938 - 2012
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 49
1919 - 2012
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 50
1930 - 2012
HPI: 69.61
Rank: 51
1943 - 2012
HPI: 69.58
Rank: 52
1917 - 2012
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 53
1925 - 2012
HPI: 69.40
Rank: 54
1918 - 2012
HPI: 69.18
Rank: 55
1936 - 2012
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 56
Among people born in United States, Joseph Murray ranks 1,194 out of 15,968. Before him are Edith Wharton (1862), J. Allen Hynek (1910), Jim Belushi (1954), Jerome Karle (1918), John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), and Etta James (1938). After him are Eric Roberts (1956), Sam Walton (1918), Bette Midler (1945), Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861), Brooke Shields (1965), and Joseph Kosuth (1945).
1862 - 1937
HPI: 69.79
Rank: 1,188
1910 - 1986
HPI: 69.78
Rank: 1,189
1954 - Present
HPI: 69.78
Rank: 1,190
1918 - 2013
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 1,191
1899 - 1980
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 1,192
1938 - 2012
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 1,193
1919 - 2012
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 1,194
1956 - Present
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 1,195
1918 - 1992
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 1,196
1945 - Present
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 1,197
1861 - 1949
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 1,198
1965 - Present
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 1,199
1945 - Present
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 1,200
Among physicians born in United States, Joseph Murray ranks 10. Before him are Ferid Murad (1936), William P. Murphy (1892), Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), Robin Cook (1940), Herbert Spencer Gasser (1888), and Joseph Erlanger (1874). After him are Virginia Apgar (1909), Louis Ignarro (1941), Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916), Francis Peyton Rous (1879), George Minot (1885), and Michael Stuart Brown (1941).
1936 - Present
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 4
1892 - 1987
HPI: 71.33
Rank: 5
1925 - 2011
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 6
1940 - Present
HPI: 70.97
Rank: 7
1888 - 1963
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 8
1874 - 1965
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 9
1919 - 2012
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 10
1909 - 1974
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 11
1941 - Present
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 12
1916 - 2003
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 13
1879 - 1970
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 14
1885 - 1950
HPI: 69.26
Rank: 15
1941 - Present
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 16