Mary Lasker

Mary Lasker

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🇺🇸United States
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Mary Woodard Lasker was an American health activist and philanthropist. She worked to promote and raise funds for medical research. She reorganized the American Cancer Society and founded the Lasker Foundation together with her husband Albert Lasker.

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1900 – 1994
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Background

Born in
Watertown
Educated at
Harvard UniversityRadcliffe CollegeUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
Awards
🏆 Presidential Medal of Freedom🏆 Congressional Gold Medal🏆 Distinguished Americans series

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  • 1900

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  • 1994

    Died

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