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Remembering Russell Means, E. Donnall Thomas
Few episodes in American history are as shameful as the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, generally regarded as he last battle of the Indian wars. During the activist days of the 1970 #39;s, the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee South Dakota for 71 days and the main spokesman for the group was Russell Means. Wounded Knee, both in 1890 and 1973, remains a milestone in our history books. E. Donnall Thomas was one of the great physicians of the 20th Century. Dr. Thomas developed the technique of bone marrow transplantation, which has saved thousands of patients internationally. He won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1990. 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 1955, he was appointed physician in chief at the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, now Bassett Medical Center, in Cooperstown, NY, an affiliate of Columbia University." [1] In 1990 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph E. Murray for the development of cell and organ transplantation. Thomas developed bone marrow transplantation as a treatment for leukemia. Thomas attended the University of Texas at Austin where he studied chemistry and chemical engineering, graduating with a BA in 1941 and an MA in 1943. While Thomas was an undergraduate he met his wife, Dorothy (Dottie) Martin while ...From:RememberingthepassedViews:0 0ratingsTime:13:44More inPeople Blogs

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