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Lasker, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 103
Housing Units (2000): 58
Land area (2000): 1.257942 sq. miles (3.258055 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.257942 sq. miles (3.258055 sq. km)
FIPS code: 37000
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 36.349886 N, 77.305285 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 27848
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Lasker

Lasker may refer to:

  • Lasker (surname)
  • Lasker, North Carolina
  • Lasker Award, an award for medical research
  • Lasker's Manual of Chess, a book on the game of chess by Emanuel Lasker.
  • Lasker–Noether theorem or Lasker Ring, a mathematical theorem
  • NOAAS Reuben Lasker (R 228), an American fisheries and oceanographic research ship in commission in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fleet since 2014
Lasker (surname)

Lasker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Albert Lasker (1880–1952), advertising pioneer; husband of Mary Woodward Lasker
  • Berthold Lasker, German chess master; brother of Emanuel Lasker
  • Eduard Lasker (1829–1884), German politician
  • Edward Lasker (1885–1981), leading American chess and go player
  • Edward Lasker (businessman) (1912-1997), American businessman, son of ad executive Albert Lasker
  • Emanuel Lasker (1868–1941), German chess player, chess world champion, and mathematician; brother of Berthold Lasker
  • Jonathan Lasker (born 1948), American artist
  • Lawrence Lasker (born 1949), American screenwriter and producer
  • Mary Woodward Lasker, health activist; wife of Albert Lasker

Usage examples of "lasker".

She's a Lasker Award laureate in medicine, neuropsychology, and perhaps the best brain surgeon in this country.

Instead of the usual embroidered babushkas nailed to the wall were photos of Lasker, Tal, Borvinnik, Spassky and Fischer, all chess masters, all Jews.

Lasker, Tal, Borvinnik, Spassky and Fischer, all chess masters, all Jews.