1990

Press release

NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1990 jointly to Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas for their discoveries concerning “organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease”. Summary This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or…

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Biographical

I was born, as were my father and his parents, in Milford, Massachusetts, a town 30 miles southwest of Boston. My father’s parents were of Southern Irish and English extraction. My mother was born in Providence, Rhode Island, soon after her parents had emigrated to the United States from Italy. Father was a lawyer and…

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Biographical

My father, Dr. Edward E. Thomas was born in 1870 and moved to Texas with his family in a covered wagon in 1874. He grew up in frontier Texas and, with almost no formal schooling went to the University of Louisville, Kentucky, where he received his M. D. His first wife died of tuberculosis, and…

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Award ceremony speech

  Presentation Speech by Professor Gösta Gahrton of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, During the 19th century, the association between disease symptoms and organ damage was well understood. Trouble with urine could be caused by damage of the kidney, and if the skin was yellow the…

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E.J. Corey, X.-M. Cheng: The Logic of Chemical Synthesis, Wiley – Interscience, 1989. E.J. Corey, A.K. Long, S.D. Rubenstein: Computer-Assisted Analysis in Organic Synthesis, Science, Vol 228, 1985, pp 408-418. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, (press release).  

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