CBC.ca | 'Father of Bone Marrow Transplantation' Dr. E. Donnall Thomas Dies Sacramento Bee SEATTLE, Oct. 20, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- E. Donnall Thomas, M.D., who won the 1990 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his pioneering work in bone-marrow transplantation to cure leukemias and other blood cancers, died today. He was 92. E. Donnall Thomas, Nobel winner for bone-marrow transplant advances Father of bone marrow transplant is dead at 92 |