Awards & Winners

1953 Lasker Award

Check winners and nominations of 1953 Lasker Award. Check awards winners of 1953 Lasker Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Hans Adolf Krebs

(For his work as discoverer of the urea and citric acid cycles, which are basic to our understanding of how the body converts food into energy.)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Michael Heidelberger

(For decisive contributions in developing a new subscience\u2014the precise measuring tool of immunochemistry. )
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

George Wald

(For his outstanding achievements in explaining the physiology of vision in man.)
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

Felix J. Underwood

(For demonstrating how a long-sustained, sound and expanding pattern of health services benefits a people. )
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

Earle Phelps

(In recognition of a lifetime of pioneering leadership in public health and sanitary science.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Paul Dudley White

(For distinguished achievement in the pathology, diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. )