Awards & Winners

1952 Lasker Award

Check winners and nominations of 1952 Lasker Award. Check awards winners of 1952 Lasker Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

(For fundamentally modifying our knowledge of viruses and the inheritance of characteristics by viruses.)
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

Brock Chisholm

(First director of WHO, for his leadership in organizing this vast post-war, international public health concept. )
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

Howard A. Rusk

(For his pioneering work in the service of the physically disabled and as distinguished rehabilitation mentor to the world.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Conrad Elvehjem

(For distinguished contributions to biochemical and nutrition research.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Henry Trendley Dean, Frederick McKay

(Joint award for leadership in the development of community-wide fluoridation programs. )