
Details
Author | Mattern, Joanne |
Binding | Library Bound |
Copyright | 2003 |
Dewey Number | 617.9509 |
Dimensions | 7.5 x 9.5 |
Interest Level | Middle |
Reading Level | 7.1 |
Series | Unlocking the Secrets of Science |
Series ISBN | 9781584152309 |
Pages | 56 |
Subject | Biography & Autobiography , Science & Technology, Juvenile Nonfiction |
Joseph E. Murray and the Story of the First Human Kidney Transplant
Joseph Murray knew he wanted to be a surgeon from the time he was a small boy. A Harvard-educated doctor, he spent much of his life s work attempting to overcome the body s natural reaction to reject foreign tissues. His work eventually led to the first successful human kidney transplant in 1954, for which he won a Nobel Prize in 1990.