Mary Lasker
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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- 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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Birth1994
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