History of Nephrology
- 1. Richard Bright discovered the connection of proteinuria to kidney disease.
- 2. Willem Kolff conducted the first successful dialysis for acute kidney injury in a human (1944).
- 3. Clyde Shields was the first person to receive chronic dialysis via the newly invented Scribner shunt.
- 4. Joseph Murray performed the first successful kidney transplant by taking the organ from one twin brother (Ronald Herrick) and placing it in to the other (Richard Herrick), who had ESKD (1919–2012), on December 23, 1954.
