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1952

The award is one of the most respected science prizes in the world, and frequently points to future Nobel Prize recognition.

ir Frank Macfarlane Burnet wins the prestigious Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for “fundamentally modifying our knowledge of viruses and the inheritance of characteristics by viruses”.

The award is one of the most respected science prizes in the world, and frequently points to future Nobel Prize recognition.

Read the Lasker Foundation’s description of Burnet’s award

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