Lasker Award 1951: Winners

Recipients

1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Karl Friedrich Meyer

   Biology

   For bacteriological research in parasitology.

2. Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award

   Florence R. Sabin

   Biology

   For outstanding accomplishments in public health administration, as Chairman of the Health Committee of the Governor of Colorado’s Post-War Planning Committee.

3. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Catharine Macfarlane, Élise L'Esperance

   Biology

   For developing cancer detection clinics for detection of early cancer or precancerous lesions in presumably healthy people.

4. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Frederic A. Gibbs, William G. Lennox

   Biology

   For research in epilepsy.