Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1990
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Joseph E. Murray
Prize share: 1/2
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E. Donnall Thomas
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1990 was awarded jointly to Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas "for their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease"
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