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| Born | William Parry Murphy Jr. November 11, 1923 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | November 30, 2023 (aged 100) Coral Gables, Florida, U.S. |
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| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | William Parry Murphy Harriett Adams |
William Parry Murphy Jr. (November 11, 1923 – November 30, 2023) was an American physician and inventor of medical devices including collaborating on a flexible sealed blood bag used for blood transfusions. He was the son of the American physician William Parry Murphy who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology for Medicine in 1934,[1] and Harriett Adams, the first licensed female dentist in Massachusetts.[2]
- ^ "Biography". nobelprize.org. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
- ^ "Lemelson-MIT". Archived from the original on October 11, 2003. Retrieved November 7, 2013.