John Putnam Merrill (March 10 1917 – April 14 1984) was an American physician and medical researcher. He led the team which performed the world’s first successful kidney transplant. He generally credited as the father of nephrology or the founder of nephrology which is the scientific study of the kidney and its diseases.
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