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E. Donnall Thomas

EDWARD DONNALL THOMAS was the winner of the Charles F. Kettering Prize of the General Motors Cancer Foundation in 1981 for “developing the technique of bone marrow allografting in man and for integrating this procedure with whole body irradiation and intensive chemotherapy as an effective treatment for patients with acute leukemia and aplastic anemia.” In 1990, he won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, with Joseph E. Murray, for the development of cell and organ transplantation, with Thomas having developed bone marrow transplantation as a treatment for leukemia. Edward Donnall Thomas was born on March 15, 1920, in Mart, Texas, the son of Dr. [Source: Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society; Thomas, E. Donnall]

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