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...Murray's colleagues praised his contribution tomedicine yesterday and said the Nobel Prize was anhonor he deserved...
...delighted [by Murray's award] for manyreasons," said Med School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson'44. "First, it celebrates a magnificent discoveryof a way to benefit millions of people throughoutthe world suffering from kidney failure. Second,it celebrates a kind of research that is ofenormous importance for the future of medicine.Third, and in many ways most important, is the[fine] character of the recipient...
When reporters posed questions to Joseph E. Murray after he received the Nobel Prize for Medicine yesterday, the Harvard professor of surgery emeritus spent much of the time talking about the accomplishments and contributions of his colleagues...
This would come as no surprise to those who know Murray, who say that his excellence as a surgeon is only paralleled by his modesty, kind personality and caring attitude towards his patients and peers...
...Murray] is a very modest, humble and unselfish man," says W. Hardy Hendren III, chief of surgery at Harvard's Children's Hospital and Gross professor of pediatric surgery. "He is always quick to praise the work of others around him while diverting the limelight away from himself...