Lasker Award · Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Lasker Award 1946: Winners

Recipients

  1. Alexander S. Wiener, Karl Landsteiner, Philip Levine

    Biology

    For the discovery of the RH factor as a cause of hemolytic disease of the newborn and of severe hemolysis arising from incompatible blood transfusions.

  2. John Friend Mahoney

    Biology

    For pioneering the treatment of syphilis with penicillin.