Awards & Winners

Lionel Penrose

Date of Birth 11-June-1898
Place of Birth London
(England, United Kingdom, Great Britain)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Mathematician
Lionel Sharples Penrose, FRS was a British psychiatrist, medical geneticist, mathematician and chess theorist, who carried out pioneering work on the genetics of mental retardation.

Awards by Lionel Penrose

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1960


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For laying the foundation for the rapid development of research in human genetics; and, specifically, to Dr. Neel for his work on thalassemia and sickle cell anemia.)