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    Mary Woodard Lasker (November 30, 1900 – February 21, 1994) was an American health activist and philanthropist. She worked to raise funds for medical...
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    In 1945 Albert Lasker and Mary Woodard Lasker created the Lasker Awards. Every year since then the award has been given to the living person considered...
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    Albert Davis Lasker (May 1, 1880 – May 30, 1952) was an American businessman who played a major role in shaping modern advertising. He was raised in Galveston...
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  • League Baseball team. His sisters are Mary Lasker Block (1904–1981) and Frances Lasker Brody (1916–2009). Edward Lasker graduated from Yale University in...
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  • Brody, a real estate developer who died in 1983, and the stepdaughter of Mary Lasker, a philanthropist and champion of medical research who died in 1994....
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  • Lasker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Albert Lasker (1880–1952), advertising pioneer; husband of Mary Woodward Lasker Berthold...
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    Edward Lasker. His paternal grandfather was businessman Albert Lasker and his paternal step-grandmothers were actor Doris Kenyon and Mary Woodard Lasker. He...
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    universities. Weaver was a member of the Jury of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation for the 1957 Lasker Award. California, Death Index, 1940-1997 "Obituary: Dr...
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  • Murrow Jerome Groopman Mary Lasker Dr. Bernard Fisher Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee Dr. Sidney Farber Dr. Susan Love Mary Lasker According to a review in...
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    of the NIH institutes get their start, wealthy New York entrepreneur Mary Lasker, and Fight for Sight founder Mildred Weisenfeld, who had retinitis pigmentosa...
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