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The Stanford School of Medicine honors the lives and contributions of deceased members of our community.

Stanford Luminaries

  • Arthur Kornberg

    Arthur Kornberg

    Arthur Kornberg, MD, winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize for his work elucidating how DNA is built, died on Oct. 26, 2007.

  • Norman Shumway

    Norman Shumway

    Norman E. Shumway, MD, PhD, the father of heart transplantation and one of the pre-eminent heart surgeons of his time, died on Feb. 10, 2006.

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