The five-year-old Lasker Awards are among the world's top medical honors. As prizes go, their value is small: the biggest single prize, given with a gold reproduction of Winged Victory,'is $2,500. Lasker Awards impress scientists because they are "working prizes." They usually skip the obvious, heavily laureled choices and reward men or groups who have done jobs that the public doesn't know much about.
Last week the award committees were polishing up the citations for next month's announcement of the 1948 winners. Nobody was telling, yet, who had won—and medical men were busily speculating....
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