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George Wald (November 18, 1906 – April 12, 1997) was an American scientist and activist who studied pigments in the retina. He won a share of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit.
Apr 15, 2024 · George Wald (born Nov. 18, 1906, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died April 12, 1997, Cambridge, Mass.) was an American biochemist who received (with Haldan K. Hartline of the United States and Ragnar Granit of Sweden) the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1967 for his work on the chemistry of vision.
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Apr 14, 1997 · George Wald, a biologist who was a joint winner of a Nobel Prize in 1967 for his research on how the eye passes images to the brain, died on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 90.
Learn about George Wald, a Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine for his work on photoreception and a prominent anti-war activist. Explore his life, career, achievements, and legacy at Harvard Square Library.
May 14, 2018 · George Wald was a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who studied photoreception, retinol, and color vision. He also taught at Harvard University and was a social activist against war and nuclear power.
George Wald was born in New York City on November 18, 1906. The son of immigrant parents, he grew up in Brooklyn in a working-class neighborhood. His mother was from Germany, his father from Poland. He showed an apti-tude for mechanical things and science from his youngest days. An early triumph was the successful construction of a
