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October 9, 1990 | ROBERT STEINBROOK and VICTOR F. ZONANA, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Two American physicians who pioneered organ transplantation techniques that have helped save tens of thousands of patients were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday. The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm conferred the prestigious award on Dr. Joseph E. Murray, 71, of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Dr. E. Donnall Thomas, 70, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.