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Richard Herrick

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Name
  
Richard Herrick


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Died
  
March 14, 1963, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, United States

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Richard J. Herrick (June 15, 1931 – March 14, 1963) was the world's first recipient of a successful human organ transplant, receiving a kidney from his identical twin brother Ronald Lee Herrick in an operation performed by Joseph Murray in 1954.

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