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E. Donnall Thomas’s Nobel Prize medal sells for $312,500

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A 1990 Nobel medal awarded to E. Donnall Thomas has sold for $312,500.

Thomas, who made groundbreaking discoveries in bone marrow transplantation, died in 2012 (The Cancer Letter, Dec. 3, 2021).

The auctioneer, Nate D. Sanders, did not disclose the buyer’s identity. 

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