What is Ronald and Richard Herrick?
{{Infobox person | name = Ronald and Richard Herrick | image = | caption = | birth_name = Ronald Lee Herrick<br>Richard J. Herrick | birth_date = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1931|06|15}} | birth_place = [[Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles|Sherman Oaks, California]], U.S. | death_date = Richard: {{death date and age|1963|03|14|1931|06|15|mf=yes}}<br>Ronald: {{death date and age|2010|12|29|1931|06|15|mf=yes}} | death_place = | occupation = | years_active = }} '''Ronald Lee Herrick''' (15 June 1931 - 29 December 2010) was the world's first organ donor. On December 23, 1954, Herrick had one of his [[kidney]]s removed and [[Organ transplant|transplanted]] into his identical twin brother, '''Richard J. Herrick''' (15 June 1931 - 14 March 1963).<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/12/worlds_first_or.html |title=World's first organ donor dies at 79 |work=boston.com |accessdate=31 December 2010 }}</ref> Richard was dying from chronic nephritis, a kidney disease.<ref name=nw/> This made Richard the first successful recipient of a human organ transplant. The operation was performed by Dr. [[Joseph Murray]] at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in [[Boston]]. Murray later won the 1990 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize in Medicine]] for his transplant work.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1990/ |title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1990 |work=nobelprize.org |accessdate=31 December 2010 }}</ref> Richard lived for a further eight years, while Ronald worked as a teacher and farmer. Ronald died in 2010 after complications from heart surgery. Since the 1954 operation more than 450,000 kidney transplants have been done in the US.<ref name=nw>{{Cite web |url=http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/health-science/item/10253-30mkdonor |title=Pioneer kidney donor dies at 79 |work=newsworks.org |accessdate=31 December 2010 |archive-date=2 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110102135527/http://www.newsworks.org/in