Lasker Award

Lasker Award 1960: Winners

Recipients

  1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

    Ernst Ruska, James Hillier

    Biology

    For the design, construction, development, and perfection of the electron microscope.

  2. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

    Francis Harry Compton Crick, James Dewey Watson, Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins

    Biology

    For revealing the structure of the DNA molecule.

  3. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

    James V. Neel, L.S. Penrose

    Biology

    For laying the foundation for research in human genetics; and, specifically, to Dr. Neel for his work on thalassemia and sickle cell anemia.

  4. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

    Edgar V. Allen, Irving S. Wright, Karl Paul Link

    Biology

    For pioneering the development and use of anticoagulant drugs.