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OnDec23,______,Drs.JosephE.Murray(1919-2012)andJohnPutnamMerrill(FatherofNephrology)ofPeterBentBrighamHospital(nowBrighamandWomen'sHospital)inBostontransplantedakidneyfromonemonozygotictwintoanother.Rejectiondidnotoccurasprovenbyskintransplants,andtherecipientlivedanother8yearsbeforedyingofheartcomplications.Murray won the 1990 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

A. 1946
B. 1950
C. 1954
D. 1960

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