Lasker Award 1957: Winners

Recipients

1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Isaac Starr

   Biology

   For contributions to knowledge of the heart and the circulation, and for the development of the first practical ballistocardiograph.

2. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Heinz E. Lehmann, Henri Laborit, Nathan S. Kline, Pierre Deniker, Robert H. Noce

   Biology

   For studies of the use of reserpine in the treatment of certain mental illnesses.

3. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Richard E. Shope

   Biology

   For original contributions to understanding infectious diseases in animals and man and the discovery of new microbiological principles.