Prix Lasker · Prix Lasker-Bloomberg pour la fonction publique

Prix Lasker 1946 : lauréats

Destinataires

  1. Alfred Newton Richards

    Biologie

    For organizing the Committee on Medical Research of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, and for supervising, during the war, the timely mass production of penicillin, the search for a better antimalarial drug, and the preparation of blood plasma.

  2. Fred L. Soper

    Biologie

    For administrative achievement in controlling yellow fever and malaria through a new principle of species eradication of insect carriers.