Lasker Award 1946: Winners

Recipients

1. Alfred Newton Richards

   Biology

   For organizing the Committee on Medical Research of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, and for supervising, during the war, the timely mass production of penicillin, the search for a better antimalarial drug, and the preparation of blood plasma.

2. Fred L. Soper

   Biology

   For administrative achievement in controlling yellow fever and malaria through a new principle of species eradication of insect carriers.