Lasker Award 1976: Winners

Recipients

1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

   Biology

   For the development of the technique of radioimmunoassay.

2. Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award

   World Health Organization

   Biology

   For its historic achievement in the practical eradication of smallpox from the Earth.

3. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   James W. Black, Raymond P. Ahlquist

   Biology

   For advancing the concept of alpha and beta adrenergic receptors, which opened the door to the development of propranolol.