The American biochemist George Wald (1906-1997) discovered the role that vitamin A plays in vision and made many contributions to the knowledge of the biochemistry of vision. He won the Nobel Prize in medicine/physiology in 1967 and was a prominent...

A born and bred New Yorker, George Wald graduated from New York University in 1927 and received his Ph.D. five years later from Columbia University. For the next two years, Wald studied in Europe, working with two of the continent's most eminent...

George Wald first won a place in the spotlight as the recipient of a Nobel Prize for his discovery of the way in which hidden biochemical processes in the retinal pigments of the eye turn light energy into sight. Among Wald's important experiments were...

George Wald of Cambridge, Nobel Prize-winning biologist, peace activist, and professor emeritus of biology at Harvard University, died at his home Saturday after two years of declining health. He was 90. One of the nation's first academics to come out against the United...

George Wald, who won the Nobel Prize in 1967 for his work on the biochemistry of vision, has died. He was 90. Mr. Wald died Saturday at his Cambridge home after two years of declining health. Born in Manhattan's lower East...