Thomas, Edward Donnall

Thomas, Edward Donnall, 1920–, American physician, b. Mart, Tex., M.D. Harvard, 1946. A surgeon at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Wash., Thomas performed (1970) the first successful bone marrow transplant between people who were not twins. For his innovation he was awarded the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which he shared with Joseph E. Murray, the first doctor to perform a successful kidney transplant. Known as the “father of the bone marrow transplant,” Thomas built the Hutchinson Center into the world's largest bone marrow transplant unit.

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