The 1940s: Medicine and Health: Awards
THE 1940s: MEDICINE AND HEALTH: AWARDS
Nobel Prize Winners in Medicineor Physiology
1940
No award.
1941
No award.
1942
No award.
1943
Henrik C. P. Dam (Denmark) for his discovery of vitamin K.
Edward A. Doisy (United States) for his work in the chemistry of vitamin K.
1944
Joseph Erlanger (United States) and Herbert S. Gasser (United States) for their discoveries on the differentiated functions of single nerve fibers.
1945
Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst B. Chain, and Sir Howard W. Florey (Great Britain) for their discovery of penicillin and its effect on curing certain infectious diseases.
1946
Herman J. Muller (United States) for discovering mutations by the use of X rays.
1947
Carl F. Cori (United States) and Gerty T. Cori (United States, born in Czechoslovakia) for their research on the catalytic conversion of glycogen.
1948
Paul H. Muller (Switzerland) for his discovery of DDT as an efficient insecticide.
1949
Walter R. Hess (Switzerland) for his discovery of the role of the interbrain as a "coordinator" of internal-organ activity.
Antonio Moniz (Portugal) for his work on the treatment of some psychoses by prefrontal lobotomy.
American Medical Association
Distinguished Service Award
Recipients
The AMA Distinguished Service Award honors a member of the association for general meritorious service.
1940
Chevalier Jackson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1941
James Ewing, New York, New York
1942
Ludvig Hektoen, Chicago, Illinois
1943
Elliott P. Joslin, Boston, Massachusetts
1944
George Dock, Pasadena, California
1945
George R. Minot, Boston, Massachusetts
1946
Anton J. Carlson, Chicago, Illinois
1947
Henry A. Christian, Boston, Massachusetts
1948
Isaac A. Abt, Chicago, Illinois
1949
Seale Harris, Birmingham, Alabama
Albert Lasker Awards
The Albert Lasker Awards are given in honor of medical research of a pioneering nature. The Lasker Awards were initially given by various medical and health organizations in appropriate fields rather than through the foundation which funds them.
Albert Lasker Awards Given
Through the American Public
Health Association
Basic Research Awards
1946
Carl Ferdinand Cori for work in carbohydrate metabolism and clarifying the action of insulin in diabetes.
1947
Oswald T. Avery for studies on the chemical construction of bacteria.
Thomas Francis, Jr., for research on influenza and development of a vaccine against types A and B.
Homer Smith for cardiovascular and renal physiology research.
1948
Vincent Du Vigneaud for basic studies of transmethylation and contributions to structure and synthesis of biotin and penicillin.
Selman A. Waksman and Rene J. Dubos jointly for studies of antibiotic properties of soil bacteria. Waksman was also cited for the discovery of streptomycin.
1949
Andre Cournand for work on the physiology of circulation and the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease.
William S. Tillett and L. S. Christensen for the discovery and purification of streptokinase and streptodornase enzymes.
Clinical Research Awards
1946
John Friend Mahoney, pioneer in treatment of syphilis with penicillin.
1947
No award.
1948
No award.
1949
Max Theiler for experiments leading to the production of two effective vaccines against yellow fever.
Basic and Clinical Research Awards
1946
Karl Landsteiner, Alexander Wiener, and Philip Levine for their discovery of the Rh factor in blood and its significance in blood transfusions and as a cause of sickness and death of infants before and after birth.
1947
No award.
1948
No award.
1949
Edward C. Kendall and Philip S. Hench for chemical, physiological, and clinical studies of adrenal hormones culminating in the use of cortisone in rheumatic-disease therapy.
Special Awards
1947
Thomas Parran for his leadership in public-health administration as surgeon general of the United States and as the president of International Health Conference and for his contributions to the control of venereal diseases.
1949
Haven Emerson for his development of a national program of rural community-health services.
Public-Service Awards
1946
Alfred Newton Richards for his organization and administration of the Committee on Medical Research of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. Richards supervised the wartime mass production of
penicillin, the search for an antimalarial drug, and preparation of blood plasma.
1947
Alice Hamilton, a leader in toxicology and contributor to the prevention of occupational diseases and betterment of workers' health.
1948
R. E. Dyer for his microbiological research and service as director of the National Institutes of Health during the war and postwar years.
Martha M. Eliot for her organization and operation of the Emergency Maternal and Infant Care Program of the Children's Bureau.
1949
Marion W. Sheahan for leadership in nursing and public health.
Albert Lasker Awards Giventhrough Planned Parenthood—
World Population
1945
John McLeod for research on the metabolism and mobility of human sperm cells.
1946
Robert Latou Dickinson for work on human fertility and its control—as gynecologist, anatomist, educator, scholar, and artist.
Irl Cephas Reggin for making Planned Parenthood available as part of Virginia's state public-health program.
1947
Alan F. Guttmacher for leadership in marriage counseling.
Abraham Stone for leadership in marriage counseling.
1948
John Rock for treatment of childless couples and help to parents in planning their families.
Richard N. Pierson, who mobilized the medical profession on behalf of family planning.
1949
George M. Cooper for services in maternal and child health.
Carl G. Hartman for his work on the physiology of the human reproductive system.
Albert Lasker Awards Giventhrough the National Committeeagainst Mental Illness
1944
Brig. Gen. William Claire Menninger for his advancement of mental health in the field of war psychiatry.
1945
Maj. Gen. G. Brock Chisholm for advancement of mental health in rehabilitation.
Brig. Gen. John Rawlings Rees for advancement of mental health in rehabilitation.
1946
W. Horsley Gantt for experimental modification and analysis of behavior.
Jules H. Masserman for his investigations into neurotic behavior.
Walter Lerch and D. P. Sharpe, who aroused the people of Ohio to start major improvements in hospital care of mental patients.
1947
Lawrence K. Frank for contributions through adult education, particularly through parent/child relationships and child-development programs.
Catherine MacKenzie, a reporter and columnist who provided a campaign of education on the care and emotional development of children.
1948
C. Anderson Aldrich, who educated physicians in psychological aspects of pediatrics.
Mike Gorman, a reporter whose contributions resulted in new mental-health legislation and increased appropriations in the field.
Al Ostrow, a reporter who helped give public and legislative support for programs for the mentally ill in California.
1949
Mildred C. Scoville for the integration of mental-health concepts in medical education and practice.
Albert Deutsch for the advancement of mental health through books and magazine and newspaper articles.
Passano Foundation Awards
Passano Foundation Awards honor distinguished work done in the United States in medical research.
1945
Edwin Joseph Cohn, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Mass.
1946
Ernest William Goodpasture, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.
1947
Selman A. Waksman, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Princeton, N.J.
1948
Alfred Blalock, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore.
Helen Brooke Taussig, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore.
1949
Oswald Theodore Avery, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York.
Nursing Awards
The Florence Nightingale Award of the International Committee of the Red Cross is given every two years to not more than thirty-six nurses and voluntary aides, honoring exceptional devotion to the sick and wounded in situations of war, epidemics, or natural disaster. It is an international award with recipients from all over the world. Those listed below represent the United States.
1941
No awards
1943
No awards
1945
No awards
1947
Lt. Col. Ida W. Danielson
Mrs. Walter Lippmann
1949
Alta Elizabeth Dines
Mary M. Roberts
The Mary Adelaide Nutting Award is given every two years to honor outstanding leadership and achievement in nursing education or nursing service.
1944
Mary Adelaide Nutting
1947
International Council of Nurses
Isabel Maitland Stewart
1949
Annie Warburton Goodrich
Mary M. Roberts
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