Lasker Award 1952: Winners

Recipients

1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Frank Macfarlane Burnet

   Biology

   For fundamentally modifying our knowledge of viruses and the inheritance of characteristics by viruses.

2. Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award

   G. Brock Chisholm

   Biology

   First director of the World Health Organization, for his leadership in organizing this vast post-war, international public health concept.

3. Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award

   Howard A. Rusk

   Biology

   For his pioneering work in the service of the physically disabled and as distinguished rehabilitation mentor to the world.

4. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Conrad A. Elvehjem

   Biology

   For the isolation of niacin, the anti-pellagra vitamin, and for other distinguished contributions to nutrition research.

5. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Frederick Sumner McKay, H. Trendley Dean

   Biology

   For leadership in the development of community wide fluoridation programs.