Jury
Sidney Farber, Harvard Medical School at the Children’s Hospital, Chair of the Jury
Michael Debakey, Baylor University College of Medicine ● Edward Dempsey, Washington University School of Medicine ● Philip Handler, Duke University Medical Center ● Edward Kendall, Princeton University ● Nathan Kline, Rockland State Hospital ● Severo Ochoa, New York University School of Medicine ● Gregory Pincus, The Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology ● Howard Rusk, Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation ● Jonas Salk, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine ● James Shannon, National Institutes of Health ● John Talbott, The Journal of the American Medical Association ● Luther Terry, US Public Health Service ● Lewis Thomas, New York University Department of Medicine ● J. Walter Wilson, Department of Biology, Brown University ● Irving Wright, Cornell University Medical College
Ceremony
Left to right: Mary Lasker, C.H. Li, Robert Sarnoff, Joseph Smadel, Lady Bird Johnson
