Abstract
In an age when expertise is ever more narrowly focused, the notion of training in one subspecialty, moving to another, doing research that will earn a Nobel Prize, then switching back to the original sounds distinctly fanciful. Yet in the mid-1900s Joseph Murray—by training a plastic surgeon but celebrated as the Nobel Prize winning pioneer of kidney transplantation—did precisely that. As his late friend and Boston surgical colleague Francis Moore is said to have commented, “Joe's the only guy who ever won a Nobel Prize for pursuing a hobby.” An overstatement, of course; but looking back over Murray's career, you can see what he was getting at.
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