Awards & Winners

1972 Canada Gairdner Awards

Check winners and nominations of 1972 Canada Gairdner Awards. Check awards winners of 1972 Canada Gairdner Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Gairdner Foundation International Award

Sune Bergström

(In recognition of his contributions to the identification and chemical characterization of the prostaglandins, ubiquitous among mammalian tissues and having diverse biological activities.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Britton Chance

(For his ingenuity in devising biophysical techniques for the observation of molecular events in living tissues, cells and organelles and for his unique imaginativeness in applying these techniques to bridge the gap between our knowledge of isolated enzymes and the phenomena of physiology and pharmacology.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Oleh Hornykiewicz

(For his elucidation of the biochemical lesion in Parkinson's disease, and his other contributions to our knowledge of the physiology of the brain.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Ruth Sanger, R.R. Race

(For their many important contributions to our knowledge of human blood groups, and for their brilliant application of this knowledge to problems in the fields of immunology, genetics, and clinical medicine.)