He had to wait until 1973 to receive the Albert Lasker award, considered America's leading prize for medical research.
9. Weir is now the leading prize-money winner on the US PGA tour, with earnings of $3,286,625.
Mr. Redmond won the DuPont packaging award, a leading prize in the industry, for the design in 1986 and a place in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
A haunting painting of a dead 100-year-old woman, painted over three days as a devotional study by her artist daughter, won the UK's leading prize for portraiture tonight.
"I'm very thrilled about it and hopefully I can make many more records". He also becomes the first man to win the Indian Wells-Miami double three years in a row, and surpasses Roger Federer as the ATP's leading prize money winner on $98.2m£69m9m).
The Brazilian writer Rubem Fonseca, above, has won the 2003 Juan Rulfocq Literature Prize, a leading award in Latin America.
It's a thriller – a genre that rarely makes to the finishing line of leading literary prizes.
The award, which celebrated its 40th anniversary last year, is one of the world's leading literary prizes, although some regularly express exasperation that it is only for Commonwealth and Irish writers.
A touching story of an 18th-century boy's love affair with an elephant, which has so far attracted little critical attention, has this evening found itself pitted against three literary heavyweights for one of the UK's leading book prizes.
Nathan Filer still does the odd Sunday shift as a registered mental health nurse, although they may well become less frequent after his debut novel – originally the subject of an 11-publisher bidding war – was on Monday night named winner of one of the UK's leading book prizes.
The Chilean poet Gonzalo Rojas, 86, has been awarded the Cervantes Prize for literature, the leading literary prize of the Spanish-speaking world, by King Juan Carlos of Spain, Agence France-Presse reported.
