Laureate

John Franklin Enders

1897–1985 · United States · Male

Awards

  1. 1954

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

    Biology

    For the cultivation of the viruses of poliomyelitis, mumps, and measles.

  2. 1954

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

    Biology

    for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue