# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-p-murphy-jr
# Generated: 2026-09-01T07:43:08.577Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-p-murphy-jr"
name: "William P. Murphy Jr."
slug: "william-p-murphy-jr"
description: "William Parry Murphy Jr. was an American physician and inventor of medical devices including collaborating on a flexible sealed blood bag used for blood transfusions. He was the son of the American physician William Parry Murphy who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology for Medicine in 1934, and Harriett Adams, the first licensed female dentist in Massachusetts."
tagline: "American physician and inventor (1923–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_Murphy_Jr._Portrait.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1923-11-11"
deathDate: "2023-11-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.270122666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "William P. Murphy Jr."
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    title: "ويليام بي ميرفي جونيور"
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    title: "ويليام بى ميرفى جونيور"
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  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Murphy_Jr."
    title: "William P. Murphy Jr."
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Murphy_jr."
    title: "William Murphy jr."
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Murphy_Jr."
    title: "William P. Murphy Jr."
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2230294"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump