Awards & Winners

1959 Lasker Award

Check winners and nominations of 1959 Lasker Award. Check awards winners of 1959 Lasker Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Albert Coons

(For his contributions in immunology and specifically for his development of the fluorescent method of labelling proteins, a significant tool for the study of infection in human beings.)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Jules T. Freund

(For new findings in the field of immunology and allergy which have strengthened immunization procedures against such diseases as tuberculosis, malaria, rabies and poliomyelitis.)
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

Maurice Pate

(For notable service to the world's children and especially for skilled development of the United Nations Children's Fund program for improving maternal and child health.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

John Holmes Dingle

(For outstanding studies which have added significantly to our knowledge and ability to control acute respiratory diseases.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Gilbert Dalldorf

(For his demonstration of the ability of one virus to modify the course of infection by another and for his discovery of Coxsackie virus by a unique and broadly applicable technique.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Robert E. Gross

(For distinguished achievement: performing the first successful operation on an inborn cardiovascular defect. )