The 1932 work, which depicts Picasso's mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter reclining and as a bust, was in the personal collection of Los Angeles philanthropist Frances Lasker Brody, who died in November 2009.

On July 28, 1920, Harding's general election campaign manager, Albert Lasker, unleashed a broad-based advertising campaign that implemented modern advertising techniques ; the focus was more strategy oriented.

Campaign manager Lasker struck a deal with Harding's paramour, Carrie Phillips, and her husband Jim Phillips, whereby the couple agreed to leave the country until after the election ; ostensibly, Mr. Phillips was to investigate the silk trade.

A congressional investigation revealed that while Lasker was in charge many valuable steel cargo ships worth between $ 200 and $ 250 a ton were sold as low as $ 30 a ton to private American shipping companies without an appraisal board.

That year he was also awarded the Gairdner Prize and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.

Lasker said " I found the predicament Hawking was in fascinating – that he might one day figure out the unified field theory and not be able to tell anyone, because of his progressive ALS.

David Lightman was modeled on David Scott Lewis, a hacking enthusiast Parkes and Lasker met.

General Beringer was based on James V. Hartinger, the then-commander-in-chief of NORAD who Parkes and Lasker met while visiting the base, and who, like Beringer, favored keeping humans in the decision loop.

WarGames was nominated for three Academy Awards — Best Cinematography ( William A. Fraker ), Sound ( Michael J. Kohut, Carlos Delarios, Aaron Rochin, Willie D. Burton ), and Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen ( Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes ).

The first vertebrate ever to be cloned was an African clawed frog, an experiment for which Sir John Gurdon was awarded the Lasker award.

Hershey, who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1958, was also the 1958 winner of the Albert Lasker Award of the American Public Health Association, and the 1965 winner of the Kimber Genetics Award of the National Academy of Sciences.

Coons devised the technology of immunofluorescence microscopy and was given the prestigious Albert Lasker Award in 1959 for his achievements in medical science.

In 1904, the Rider Hotel in Cambridge Springs was the site of a famous chess tournament won by Frank Marshall ahead of World Champion Emanuel Lasker and fourteen other players.

For discovering the central role of dendritic cells in the adaptive immune response, Steinman was awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 2007 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2011.

* The 1981 NBC mini series, The Gangster Chronicles, the character of Michael Lasker, played by Brian Benben, was based on Lansky.

Because Lansky was still living at the time, the producers derived the " Michael Lasker " name for the character to avoid legal complications.

She was the Albert D. Lasker Professor of Medical Sciences in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago, and the Director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research from 2001-2004.

Dr. Papanicolaou was the recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research in 1950.

By the early 1890s, Steinitz's approach was widely accepted and the next generation of top players acknowledged their debt to him, most notably his successor as world champion, Emanuel Lasker.

Hood was awarded the 1987 Lasker Prize for his studies on the mechanism of immune diversity ; the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities Award for outstanding contributions to Biomolecular Technologies in 2000 ; the 2002 Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology for technology development ; the 2003 Lemelson-MIT Prize for Innovation and Invention for the development of the DNA sequencer ; the 12th Annual Heinz Award in Technology, the Economy and Employment in 2006 for his extraordinary breakthroughs in biomedical science ; and the 2006 Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award for his society-transforming use of information technology.

The first known use of the term in English was by World Champion Emanuel Lasker in 1905.

Lasker was one of the few supporters.

While the greatest players of the time, among them Alekhine, Emanuel Lasker and Capablanca, clearly did not allow their play to be hobbled by blind adherence to general concepts that the center had to be controlled by pawns, that development had to happen in support of this control, that rooks always belong on open files, that wing openings were unsound — core ideas of Tarrasch's chess philosophy as popularly understood — beginners were taught to think of these generalizations as unalterable principles.

In one of her games against Karpov, he blundered, allowing Polgár to utilize a famous, ancient sacrifice first employed by Emanuel Lasker against Bauer in 1889.

WarGames is a 1983 American Cold War science-fiction film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham.

For any primary decomposition of I, the set of all radicals, that is, the set remains the same by the Lasker – Noether theorem.

* Sneakers, directed by Phil Alden Robinson ( Field of Dreams ), and written by Robinson, Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker ( 1992 )

* The Grand International Chess Congress is held in the summer at Hastings and is won by Harry Nelson Pillsbury ahead of Mikhail Chigorin and current world champion Emanuel Lasker.

The scanners were used by a team of scientists under the leadership of the late Dr. Barry Lasker to develop the Guide Star Catalog and Digitized Sky Survey projects that guide and direct the Hubble Space Telescope.

They were assisted by Lasker, who had extensive Washington connections and was aided by Mike Gorman, a journalist and promoter of mental health.

Tarrasch haughtily declined, stating that Lasker should first prove his mettle by attempting to win one or two major international events.

Rebuffed by Tarrasch, Lasker challenged the reigning World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz to a match for the title.

Lasker thus became the second formally recognized World Chess Champion, and confirmed his title by beating Steinitz even more convincingly in their re-match in 1896 – 97 ( ten wins, five draws, and two losses ).

Emanuel Lasker answered these criticisms by creating an even more impressive playing record.

Lasker eventually won by 10½ − 5½ ( eight wins, five draws, and three losses ).

In 1921-23, engineer and chess master Edward Lasker produced a mechanical breast pump that imitated an infant's sucking action and was regarded by physicians as a marked improvement on existing hand-operated breast pumps, which failed to remove all the milk from the breast.

The missing steps in the signaling process were filled in by Robert F. Furchgott and Louis J. Ignarro, for which the three shared the 1998 Nobel Prize ( and for which Murad and Furchgott received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1996 ).

The first flag was designed by Student Leaders of Shawdhin Bangla Nucleus painter was Shib Narayan Das and was made from clothes donated by the owner of Apollo Tailors, Bazlur Rahman Lasker, of Dhaka's New Market.

* Emanuel Lasker proves the Lasker – Noether theorem for the special case of polynomial rings.

He received the Prince Mahidol Award from the King of Thailand for the advancement of public health, as well as a special lifetime achievement award from the World Health Organization, the Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service and the Sabin Gold Medal and Lifetime Achievement Awards.

In 1960 he was presented with the American Public Health Association's Albert Lasker Award, and in 1962 he was made a Commander of the British Empire.

Bernstein has won numerous awards and honorary degrees, including the Florina Lasker Award from the New York Civil Liberties Union ; the Human Rights Award from the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights ; the Spirit of Liberty Award from People for the American Way ; the Barnard Medal of Distinction from Barnard College ; the Curtis Benjamin Award for Distinguished Publishing from the Association of American Publishers ; and, in 1998, the United States ’ first Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award, which was presented by President Bill Clinton.