Thomas Earl Starzl was an American physician, researcher, and expert on organ transplants.
11 Facts About Thomas Starzl
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Dr Thomas Starzl penned his autobiography, "The Puzzle People: Memoirs Of A Transplant Surgeon," which was published in 1992.
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Thomas Starzl was born on March 11,1926, in Le Mars, Iowa, the son of newspaper editor and science fiction writer Roman Frederick Thomas Starzl and Anna Laura Fitzgerald who was a teacher and a nurse.
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Originally intending to become a priest in his teenage years, Thomas Starzl changed his plans drastically when his mother died from breast cancer in 1947.
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Thomas Starzl attended Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology.
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Thomas Starzl attended Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, where in 1950 he received a Master of Science degree in anatomy and in 1952 earned both a Ph.
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Thomas Starzl spent an extra year at medical school, using the additional time to complete a doctorate in neurophysiology, in 1952.
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Thomas Starzl wrote a seminal paper describing a technique to record the electrical responses of deep brain structures to sensory stimuli such as a flash of light or a loud sound.
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Thomas Starzl was a surgeon and researcher in the then nascent field of organ transplantation at the University of Colorado from 1962 until his move to the University of Pittsburgh in 1981.
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Thomas Starzl has received honorary degrees from 26 universities in the United States and abroad, which include 12 in Science, 11 in Medicine, 2 in Humane Letters, and 1 in Law.
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On October 15,2007, the Western Pennsylvania American Liver Foundation and the City of Pittsburgh honored Starzl by dedicating Lothrop Street, near his office and the biomedical research tower bearing his name, as "Thomas E Starzl Way".