The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1990
Awarded on: 1990-10-08
"for their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease"
Affiliations:
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center – Seattle, WA, USA
E. Donnall Thomas
Born: 1920-03-15 in Mart, TX, USA
Gender: male
Field: American hematologist
Biography
Edward Donnall "Don" Thomas was an American physician, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, and director emeritus of the clinical research division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. In 1990 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph E. Murray for the development of cell and organ transplantation. Thomas and his wife and research partner Dottie Thomas developed bone marrow transplantation as a treatment for leukemia.