JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE LASKER AWARD
IN BASIC MEDICAL RESEARCH
(33% of recipients)
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- Selman Waksman (1948)
- Sir Hans Krebs (1953)
- Michael Heidelberger (1953)
- George Wald (1953)
- Karl Meyer 1
(1956)
- Theodore Puck (1958)
- Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat (1958)
- Jules Freund (1959)
- Harry Rubin (1964)
- Bernard Brodie (1967)
- Marshall Nirenberg (1968)
- Seymour Benzer (1971)
- Sydney Brenner (1971)
- Charles Yanofsky (1971)
- Ludwik Gross (1974)
- Sol Spiegelman (1974)
- Howard Temin (1974)
- Andrew Schally (1975)
- Rosalyn Yalow (1976)
- Sir John Vane 2 (1977)
- Hans Kosterlitz (1978)
- Solomon Snyder (1978)
- Walter Gilbert (1979)
- Paul Berg (1980)
- Stanley N. Cohen (1980)
- Harold Varmus (1982)
- Eric Kandel (1983)
- César Milstein (1984)
- Michael Brown (1985)
- Joseph Goldstein (1985)
- Rita Levi-Montalcini (1986)
- Stanley Cohen (1986)
- Philip Leder (1987)
- Alfred Gilman (1989)
- Stanley Prusiner (1994)
- Jack Strominger (1995)
- Robert Furchgott (1996)
- Mark Ptashne (1997)
- Aaron Ciechanover (2000)
- Avram Hershko (2000)
- Alexander Varshavsky (2000)
- James Rothman (2002)
- Randy Schekman (2002)
- Ronald Evans (2004)
- Ralph Steinman (2007)
NOTES
1. See, e.g., Who's Who in American
Jewry (Jewish Biographical Bureau, New York, NY, 1978).
The biochemist Karl Meyer should not be confused with the
bacteriologist/virologist Karl F. Meyer, the 1951 Lasker recipient
(about
whom we have no information).
2. Jewish
father,
non-Jewish mother, according to an interview published in Candid Science II,
by
István Hargittai (Imperial College Press, London, 2002, p. 562).
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