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E. Donnall Thomas

1920 - 2012

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Edward Donnall "Don" Thomas (March 15, 1920 – October 20, 2012) 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. Thomas was a lead investigator in a failed series of experimental treatments for leukemia and for Graft-versus-host disease at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center from 1981 to 1993. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. E. Donnall Thomas is the 166th most popular physician (down from 145th in 2019), the 1,416th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,089th in 2019) and the 26th most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, E. Donnall Thomas ranks 166 out of 726. Before him are Herta Oberheuser, Agnodice, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Peter Agre, Virginia Apgar, and Magnus Hirschfeld. After him are Sushruta, Carl Wernicke, Albert of Riga, Severo Ochoa, Andrew Schally, and Merit-Ptah.

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Among people born in 1920, E. Donnall Thomas ranks 59. Before him are Sergei Bondarchuk, Mickey Rooney, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Gunnar Gren, Michèle Morgan, and Alberto Sordi. After him are Jack Elam, Ștefan Kovács, Takashi Kano, Shelley Winters, Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, and César Rodríguez Álvarez. Among people deceased in 2012, E. Donnall Thomas ranks 57. Before him are Dick Clark, Rodney King, Rauf Denktaş, Renato Dulbecco, Erland Josephson, and Carlo Maria Martini. After him are Lucio Dalla, Chadli Bendjedid, Etta James, Carl Johan Bernadotte, Carl Woese, and George Armitage Miller.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, E. Donnall Thomas ranks 1,416 out of 20,380. Before him are Don Norman (1935), Alicia Keys (1981), Robert M. La Follette (1855), Robert Englund (1947), William Morris Davis (1850), and William J. Burns (1956). After him are Matt Groening (1954), Timothy M. Dolan (1950), Mae West (1893), Sam Jones (1933), Jeremy Renner (1971), and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, E. Donnall Thomas ranks 26. Before him are William Kaelin Jr. (1957), Ferid Murad (1936), Charles Best (1899), Jonas Salk (1914), Peter Agre (1949), and Virginia Apgar (1909). After him are Michael Stuart Brown (1941), Richard Axel (1946), Randy Schekman (1948), Robert Lefkowitz (1943), Patch Adams (1945), and Louis Ignarro (1941).

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