This is a straight history-of-surgery recall, so the strategy is to anchor on the procedure and the surgeon famously tied to it. Autologous renal transplantation, or renal autotransplantation, is taking the patient's own kidney out and re-siting it within the same body, a manoeuvre used for things like a destroyed mid-ureter or difficult renal artery disease where in-situ repair is impossible.
The eponym attached to the first such kidney autotransplant in surgical teaching is Hardy. James Hardy is a landmark transplant surgeon, best remembered for the first human lung transplant, and his name is the one carried forward for the first renal autotransplantation.
The remaining names in the option list do not hold that distinction in the standard record. So by elimination and by the recognised attribution, the surgeon credited with the first autologous renal transplant is Hardy.
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