The 1990 Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to the Americans Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnell Thomas for their work on organ transplants, the fourth time since the prize was inaugurated in 1901 that trans-plantation medicine has received the honor, and an indication of the achievements that have been made in the field this century.
一九九○年諾貝爾生理．醫學獎，由研究器官移植的美國醫生默瑞和湯瑪斯獲得。諾貝爾獎自一九○一年開頒以來，移植醫學已是第四度獲獎，足見器官移植確為本世紀人類最重要的「生路」之一。