"Nobel Prize in Medicine" E. Donnall Thomas Hand Written Letter Dated 2002 COA

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"Nobel Prize in Medicine" E. Donnall Thomas Hand Written Letter Dated 2002. This auction includes an official University 8X10 color photo.
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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
. Born in
Mart
,
Texas
, Thomas often shadowed his father who was a general practice doctor. Later, he attended the
University of Texas at Austin
where he studied
chemistry
and
chemical engineering
, graduating with a
B.A.
in 1941 and an
M. A.
in 1943. While Thomas was an undergraduate he met his wife,
Dorothy (Dottie) Martin
while she was training to be journalist. They had three children. Thomas entered
Harvard Medical School
in 1943, receiving an
M.D.
in 1946. Dottie became a lab technician during this time to support the family, and the pair worked closely thereafter. He did his residency at
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
before joining the US Army. "In 1955, he was appointed physician in chief at the
Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital
, now Bassett Medical Center, in Cooperstown, N.Y., an affiliate of
Columbia University
.At Mary Imogene Bassett, he began to study rodents that received lethal doses of radiation who were then saved by an infusion of marrow cells. At the time, patients who underwent bone marrow transplantation all died from infections or immune reactions that weren't seen in the
rodent studies
. Thomas began to use dogs as a model system. In 1963, he moved his lab to the
United States Public Health Service
in Seattle.
Thomas also received
National Medal of Science
in 1990. In 2003 he was one of 22 Nobel laureates who signed the
Humanist Manifesto
.