Joseph E. Murray
Joseph E. Murray
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1990
Nobel co-recipient: E. Donnall Thomas
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Name: Joseph E. Murray
Birth: 1 April 1919, Milford, MA, USA
Death: 26 November 2012, Boston, MA, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Award: “for their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease.”
Portion of Cash: 1/2
“for their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease.”
Nobel Prize Cash & Philanthropy
Joseph Murray donated the Nobel Prize money to institutions in which he had worked – Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital. He believed greatly in basic science research and hoped that someday stem cell research would lead to organs being created.