Pictures from Google Image Search

The 1970s: Medicine and Health: Awards

American Decades | 2001 | Copyright 2001, Gale Group. All rights reserved. Gale Group is a Thomson Corporation Company. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

THE 1970s: MEDICINE AND HEALTH: AWARDS

Nobel Prize Winners for Medicineor Physiology

1970

Julius Axelrod (United States), Ulf von Euler (Sweden), and Bernard Katz (Great Britain, born in Germany) for their discoveries of humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release, and inactivation.

1971

Earl W. Sutherland, Jr., (United States), for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms or actions of hormones.

1972

Gerald M. Edelman (United States) and Rodney R. Porter (Great Britain) for their work in immunology on the chemical structure of antibodies.

1973

Karl von Frisch (Austria), Konrad Lorenz (Austria), and Niko Tinbergen (Great Britain, born in the Netherlands) for their discoveries of the organization and elicitation of individual and social behavioral patterns in animals, including those with genetic foundations.

1974

Albert Clause (United States, born in Luxembourg), Christian Rene de Duve (Belgium, born in England), and George E. Palade (United States, born in Romania) for their founding of cell-biology science and work on the structural and functional organization of the cell.

1975

David Baltimore (United States), Renato Dulbecco (United States, born in Italy), and Howard M. Temin (United States) for their discoveries which provided scientists with a blueprint of the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell.

1976

Baruch S. Blumberg (United States) and D. Carleton Gajdusek (United States) for their findings of new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases, including the identification of a new class of human diseases caused by unique infectious agents.

1977

Roger Guillemin (United States, born in France) and Andrew V. Schalley (United States, born in Poland) for their discoveries of the peptide hormone production of the brain; and Rosalyn S. Yalow (United States) for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones.

1978

Werner Arber (Switzerland), Daniel Nathans (United States), and Hamilton O. Smith (United States) for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to molecular genetics.

1979

Allan Cormack (United States, born in South Africa) and Godfrey Hounsfield (Great Britain) for the development of computer-assisted tomography.

American Medical Association
Distinguished Service Award
Recipients

The AMA Distinguished Service Award honors a member of the association for general meritorious service.

1970

Henry L. Bockus, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1971

George R. Herrmann, Galveston, Texas

1972

Milton Helpern, New York, New York

1973

George Hoyt Whipple, Rochester, New York 1974

1974

William Fouts House, Los Angeles, California

1975

William R. Willard, Moundville, Alabama

1976

Claude E. Welch, Boston, Massachusetts

1977

Franz J. Ingelfinger, Boston, Massachusetts

1978

William P. Longmire, Jr., Los Angeles, California

1979

William A. Sodeman, Sr., Toledo, Ohio

Albert Lasker Awards

The Albert Lasker Awards are given in honor of medical research of a pioneering nature.

Basic Research Awards

1970

Earl W. Sutherland for his discovery of a regulator of body chemistry called cyclic AMP.

1971

Seymour Benzer, Sydney Brenner (Great Britain), and Charles Yanofsky, whose decoding of genetic material helped explain the nature of genetic mutations.

1972

No award

1973

No award

1974

Ludwick Gross, who contributed to knowledge of leukemia- and cancer-causing viruses in mammals; Howard E. Skipper for research in the chemotherapy of cancer; Sol Spiegelman for research in molecular biology; and Howard M. Temin for his work on the biology of RNA-containing cancer viruses.

1975

Roger C. L. Guillemin for discovering several hormones, including somatostatin, and Andrew V. Schalley for discovering luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone; Frank Dixon and Henry G. Kunkel for discoveries that help explain immunological disorders that may underlie chronic kidney, heart, and joint diseases.

1976

Rosalyn S. Yalow, for her role in developing with the late Dr. Solomon A. Berson, radioimmunoassay techniques that measure changes between normal and disease states.

1977

K. Sune D. Berstrom (Sweden), Bengt Samuelsson (Sweden), and Dr. John R. Vane (Great Britain) for discoveries and other pioneering research concerning prostaglandins.

1978

Hans W. Kosterlitz (Great Britain), John Hughes (Great Britain), and Solomon H. Snyder for chemical discoveries affecting pain control.

1979

Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger (Great Britain) for major contributions made to the understanding of the chemistry of heredity, Roger W. Sperry for studies in the functioning of the human brain.

Clinical Research Awards

1970

Robert A. Good for discovering the mysteries of immunology and using the findings to cure fatal diseases.

1971

Edward D. Freis for his work in hypertensive disease and his findings that moderate cases of high blood pressure could be treated with drugs, reducing strokes and heart failure.

1972

Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., Emil Frei III, Emil J. Freireich, James F. Holland, Donald Pinkel, Paul Carbone, Min Chiu Li, Roy Hertz, Edmund Klein, Eugene J. Van Scott, Denis Burkitt (Great Britain), Joseph H. Burchenal, John L. Ziegler (Uganda), V. Anomah Ngu (United Republic of Cameroon), Isaac Djerassi, and C. Gordon Zubrod, all of whom pioneered in the use of drugs to combat cancers.

1973

William Bennett Kouwenhausen, for developing techniques of external heart massage; Paul M. Zoll whose research led to the development of the pacemaker.

1974

Prof. John Charnley for perfection of the operation that involves replacement with artificial materials of the hip socket and the top of the thighbone.

1975

Engineer Godfrey N. Hounsfield (Great Britain) for his invention of computer-assisted tomography, a computerized X-ray device used in brain scanning, with William Oldendorf, who conceived of scanning the brain with X rays a decade before Hounsfield independently developed the scanner.

1976

Raymond P. Ahlquist and James W. Black (Great Britain) for independent research that led to the development of drugs called beta-blockers and the drug propanolol (also called inderal), which prevents irregular heartbeats and lowers blood pressure.

1977

Inge G. Edler (Sweden) and C. Hellmuth Hertz (Sweden) for pioneering work in applying ultrasound vibrations to diagnose heart disorders and other serious illnesses.

1978

Michael Heidelberger for immunochemistry research leading to vaccines made from polysaccharides; Robert Austrian for the development of a vaccine against the pneumococci bacterium; Emil Gotschlich for the development of a vaccine against meningitis.

1979

No award

Special Awards

1972

C. Gordon Zubrod, Special Award for his administrative leadership in creating "an effective national cancer chemotherapy program."

1973

Sen. Warren G. Magnuson, Public Service Award for crucial legislative leadership guaranteeing that major types of cancer will be conquered in his lifetime.

1975

Jules Stein, Public Service Award for his support of research that has led to the development of several techniques to prevent blindness. Karl H. Beyer, James M. Sprague, John E. Baer, and Frederick C. Novello, Special Public Health Award for creating a new class of drugsthiazide diureticsto control high blood pressure and swelling associated with heart disease.

1976

World Health Organization, Public Service Award for historic achievement in the eradication of smallpox.

1978

Elliot L. Richardson and Theodore Cooper, Public Service Award for initiating the National High Blood Pressure Education Program.

1979

Sir John Wilson (Great Britain), Public Service Award for important contributions to the worldwide campaign against blindness.

McAlpine Medal

The Mental Health Association began giving the McAlpine Medal in 1972 for outstanding research in the causes and prevention of mental illness.

1972

Seymour Kety, biochemical research in schizophrenia

1973

Robert Coles

1974

Erik H. Erikson, psychoanalysis and human development

1975

Alexander Leighton, social psychiatry

1976

William E. Bunney, biochemistry of depression

1977

Lyman Winn and Margaret Singer, work on schizophrenia

1978

Neal E. Miller

1979

Daniel X, Freedman

Passano Foundation Awards

Passano Foundation Awards honor distinguished work done in the United States in medical research. Originally one award was endowed. Beginning in 1974 there were two awards, a Senior Award and a Junior Award.

1970

Paul Charles Zamecnik, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

1971

Stephen W. Kuffler, Harvard Medical School, Boston Massachusetts

1972

Kimishige Ishizaka, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

1973

Roger W. Sperry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

Senior awards

1974

Seymour S. Cohen, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver

1975

Henry G. Kunkel, Rockefeller University, New York

1976

Roger Guillemin, Salk Institute, San Diego, California

1977

Curt P. Richter, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

1978

Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein, University of Texas Health Center, Dallas

1979

Donald F. Steiner, University of Chicago, Illinois

Junior Awards

1974

Baruch S. Blumberg, Institute for Cancer Research, Fox Chase, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1975

Joan Argetsinger Steitz, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

1976

Robert A. Bradshaw, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle

1977

Eric A. Jaffee, Cornell University Medical College, Ithaca, New York

1978

Robert J. Lefkowitz, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

1979

Richard Axel, Columbia University, New York

Nursing Awards

The Anna Fillmore Award recognizes contributions in the development and administration of community health services on a local, state, or national level.

1977

Eva M. Reese

1979

Virgina Coker Phillips

The Lucile Petry Leone Award is given every two years to an outstanding nurse-teacher with no more than seven years of teaching experience in the last ten years.

1971

Ada Sue Hinshaw

1973

Rhoda B. Epstein

1975

Lillian Gatlin Stokes

1977

Gail Elaine Wiscarz Stuart

1979

Christine A. Tanner

The National League for Nursing Distinguished Service Award honors an individual, group, or team for outstanding leadership and service.

1971

Mary C. Rockefeller

Alabama League for Nursing

1973

Ruth Sleeper

1975

Anna M. Fillmore

1977

Lulu Wolf Hassenplug

1979

Lillian S. Brunner

The Mary Adelaide Nutting Award is given every two years to honor outstanding leadership and achievement in nursing education or nursing service.

1971

Jessie M. Scott

W. K. Kellogg Foundation

1973

Lucile Petry Leone

Ester Lucile Brown

1975

Jo Eleanor Elliott

Mary Kelly Mullane

1977

Virginia Henderson

1979

Rena E. Boyle

The Linda Richards Award honors an individual actively engaged in nursing whose contribution is unique, of a pioneering nature, or of such excellence as to merit national recognition.

1971

No award

1973

Hildegard Peplau

Mabel Keaton Staupers

1975

Rosemary Wood

1977

M. Lucille Kinlein

1979

Loretta C. Ford

Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.

  • MLA
  • Chicago
  • APA

"The 1970s: Medicine and Health: Awards." American Decades. The Gale Group, Inc. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 24 Dec. 2009 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

"The 1970s: Medicine and Health: Awards." American Decades. The Gale Group, Inc. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (December 24, 2009). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3468302834.html

"The 1970s: Medicine and Health: Awards." American Decades. The Gale Group, Inc. 2001. Retrieved December 24, 2009 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3468302834.html

Learn more about citation styles

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Geometry Must Be Vital.
Magazine article from: Teaching Children Mathematics; 3/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Eugene Smith wrote a book about teaching geometry. Although it was written for secondary school geometry teachers, his preface describing why he...his book "...stands for vitalizing geometry in every legitimate way; for improving...
Pseudo-manifold geometries with applications.(Report)
Magazine article from: International Journal of Mathematical Combinatorics; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Kahler geometry and Finsler geometry, ..., etc., are their sub-geometries. Key Words: Smarandache geometry, Smarandache manifold, pseudo...that support a Smarandache geometry. Smarandache geometries were applied to construct...
Geometry Blaster(TM) from Davidson & Associates, Inc.: The Next Step in Math Education
PR Newswire; 1/7/1997; 700+ words ; ...Covers An Entire Year Of High-School Geometry TORRANCE, Calif., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire...software to complete their math education: Geometry Blaster(TM) from Davidson &...CD covers a full year of high-school geometry. Combining an adventure game with animated...
Geometry results from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study.(Geometry and Geometric Thinking)
Magazine article from: Teaching Children Mathematics; 2/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...is one of the items used to assess the geometry knowledge of students worldwide on the...article gives an overview of the TIMSS geometry findings for grades 3 and 4 and grades...evaluate their students' understanding of geometry. To put students' geometry performance...
Geometry: a new angle on your future.(what do I do with ...)
Magazine article from: Career World, a Weekly Reader publication; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Congratulations! You know something about the practical uses for geometry (and your bedroom is going to look great, too). The Unusual "Side" of Geometry As you know, geometry has a practical, technical side to it. But it has another side...
From Bolyai's Geometry to Smarandache Anti-Geometry.
Magazine article from: Smarandache Notions Journal; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...euclidean Geometry, Hilbert...Smarandache Geometries, Hjelmslev...large classes of Geometries, in absolute geometry are included...geometry, as geometry with center...The classical Geometries are extended...
Partially paradosist Smarandache geometries.
Magazine article from: Smarandache Notions Journal; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...standard non-Euclidean geometries, the hyperbolic geometry of Gauss, Lobachevski...lines of Euclidean geometry in one region and...hyperbolic or elliptic geometry in another. We would...therefore, to find geometries among the Riemannian...
Smarandache's new geometries a provocation for an ammelioration of human condition.
Magazine article from: Smarandache Notions Journal; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...others. This new Geometry generalizes and...Gauss and Riemann Geometries. If the first Non-euclidean Geometry introduced by Lobacewski...many kinds of new Geometries. Even in 1969 Florentin...problem to study a new Geometry in which the parallel...
The Changing Shape of Geometry: Celebrating a Century of Geometry and Geometry Teaching.(Book review)
Magazine article from: School Science and Mathematics; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; The Changing Shape of Geometry: Celebrating a Century of Geometry and Geometry Teaching Author: Chris Pritchard, Ed. The Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street Cambridge, United Kingdom 2003...
3Dlabs Demonstrates Geometry Acceleration In DirectX 7 at Meltdown 99.
PR Newswire; 6/7/1999; 700+ words ; ...first public demonstration of accelerated geometry and lighting using Microsoft's newly...GVX1 board that provides high-speed geometry and rasterization acceleration on a single...showed that applications with complex geometry run up to three times faster due to the...

Related entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses

geometry
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...The non-Euclidean geometries are exactly analogous to the geometry of Euclid, except...compared. Projective geometry, on the other hand...includes the metric geometries as a special case; pure projective geometry makes no reference...
Geometry
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science Geometry The term geometry is derived from the Greek word geometria, meaning "to measure the Earth." In its most basic sense, then, geometry was a branch of mathematics originally developed and used to measure...
Geometry: Philosophical Aspects
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...religious importance of geometry needs to be addressed...evident truth of Euclidean geometry; that had to await the advent of non-Euclidean geometries and the philosophical...nineteenth century. Euclidean geometry Greek mathematics culminated...
non-Euclidean geometry
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition non-Euclidean geometry branch of geometry in which the fifth postulate of Euclidean geometry, which allows one and only one line parallel to a given line through a given external point, is replaced by one of two alternative postulates. Allowing...
Geometry Software, Dynamic
Book article from: Mathematics Geometry Software, Dynamic Tucked in with the...programs known collectively as "dynamic geometry." At first glance, the word "dynamic" might sound like an odd way to describe geometry. The dictionary defines "dynamic" as...

Find thousands of answers for hundreds of subjects at Smart QandA .

All answers verified by trusted sources at Encyclopedia.com

Try Smart QandA now!

For students and teachers!

Encyclopedia.com provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including:

Encyclopedia.com provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including: