Award winners... The six winners of the 1958 Albert Lasker Awards, they are among the most coverted medical prizes in the nation, include: Dr. Alfred D. Hershey (left), Deot. of genetics: Carnegie Institute of Washington. Dr. Gerhard Schramm (centre) Max planck Institute, Germany. And Dr. Heinz Fraeknel-Conrat, University of California Virus Laboratory. October 16 1958. New York.