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Thomas and his wife and research partner Dottie Thomas developed bone marrow transplantation as a treatment for leukemia.","summary_more":["Thomas was a lead investigator in a failed series of experimental treatments for leukemia and for Graft-versus-host disease at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center from 1981 to 1993. Participants were not informed that Thomas and other researchers had a potential financial conflict of interest in the trials, and were never properly informed of the risks. The study continued despite objections from members of the Center’s Internal Review Board. 84 of the 85 participants in the study died."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"15 March 1920","date":"1920-03-15"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310485#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Mart","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q969811"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310485#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"20 October 2012","date":"2012-10-20"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310485#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Seattle","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5083"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310485#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"United States","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310485#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"physician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39631"},{"text":"university teacher","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1622272"},{"text":"hematologist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3144914"},{"text":"physicist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q169470"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310485#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Harvard Medical School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49121"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310485#P69"}},{"key":"spouse","label":"Spouse","values":[{"text":"Dottie Thomas","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22680027"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310485#P26"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80061","date":"1990"},{"text":"Canada Gairdner International Award","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1031994","date":"1990"},{"text":"National Medal of Science","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q737051","date":"1990"},{"text":"Kettering Prize","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q610188","date":"1981"},{"text":"George M. 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