Lasker Award · Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

Lasker Award 1953: Winners

Recipients

  1. George Wald

    Biology

    For achievements in explaining the physiology of vision in man.

  2. Hans Adolf Krebs

    Biology

    For the discovery of the urea and citric acid cycles, which are basic to our understanding of how the body converts food into energy.

  3. Michael Heidelberger

    Biology

    For the development of immunochemistry.