Lasker Award 1968: Winners

Recipients

1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Har Gobind Khorana, Marshall W. Nirenberg

   Biology

   For deciphering the genetic code.

2. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   William F. Windle

   Biology

   For basic discoveries in the field of developmental biology.

3. Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award

   Lister Hill

   Biology

   For his leadership in guiding to passage over 80 major pieces of health legislation, which together represent an historic and abiding commitment by the national government to the health of all of our people.

4. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   John Heysham Gibbon

   Biology

   For designing and developing the heart-lung machine.