Background
Lasker, Gabriel Ward was born on April 29, 1912 in York, England. Son of Bruno and Margaret Naomi (Ward) Lasker.
Lasker, Gabriel Ward was born on April 29, 1912 in York, England. Son of Bruno and Margaret Naomi (Ward) Lasker.
Student, University Wisconsin, 1930. Bachelor of Arts Michigan, 1934. A.M., Harvard University, 1940.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1945. Distinguished Service Cross (honorary), University Turin, Italy, 2000.
Instructor English, Chiao T'ung U., Peking, China, 1936-1937; teaching fellow in anatomy, Harvard Medical School, 1941-1942; member of faculty department anatomy, Wayne State University School Medicine, Detroit, since 1946; assistant professor, Wayne State University School Medicine, Detroit, 1947-1955; associate professor, Wayne State University School Medicine, Detroit, 1955-1964; professor, Wayne U. School Medicine, 1964-1982; professor emeritus, Wayne U. School Medicine, since 1982; fellow commoner, Churchill College, Cambridge U., 1983-1984. Conducted Wayne U.-Viking Fund field trip to Mexico to study effects of migration on physical characteristics of Mexicans, 1948.
Fellow American Anthropological Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president 1968). Member American Association Physical Anthropologists (secretary-treasurer 1947-1951, vice president 1960-1962, president 1963-1965, Charles Darwin award 1993), American Association Anatomists, Human Biology Association, (president 1982-1984, First Franz Boas Prize, 1996), Society Study Human Biology (United Kingdom), Asociación Mexicana de Antropología Biológica, Sigma Xi.
Married Bernice Kaplan, July 31, 1949. Children: Robert Alexander, Edward Meyer, Ann Titania.