Successful homotransplantation of the human kidney between identical twins.

This was the first successful kidney transplant. The patient, both of whose own kidneys had been removed, was alive 11 months after the transplant. With Warren R. Guild. See No. 4256.1.

In 1990 Joseph Murray shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with E. Donnall Thomas (No. 13594) "for their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease.”

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for pointing out that this paper was the work for which Joseph Murray was awarded the Nobel Prize.)