- Inventor of the modern kidney dialysis machine; chief designer of the first mechanical heart implanted in a person.
- Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1985.
- Built the first kidney dialysis machine.
- Built the first successful artificial heart.
- His wife reportedly divorced him because she could no longer stand his constant tinkering.
- In 2002, he received the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Research, one of the highest honors in American medicine, for his work on kidney disease treatment.
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