Richard Herrick
The basics
Quick facts
Gender:
Male
Birth:
15 June 1931
Death:
14 March 1963
The details
Biography
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.