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Name: George Wald
Birth Date: 1906
Death Date: April 12, 1997
Place of Birth: New York, New York
Place of Death: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: biochemist

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Biography of George Wald
1,153 words, approx. 4 pages
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...
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Biography of George Wald
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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...
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Biography of George Wald
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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...
 


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George Wald(November 18, 1906 – April 12, 1997) was an American scientist who is best known for his work with pigments in the retina. He won a share of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar...


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The Boston Globe
George Wald, 90; Nobel Laureate, Harvard Biologist, Peace Activist
04/14/1997: 777 words, approx. 3 pages
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...
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The Boston Herald
George Wald, at 90, won Nobel prize in '67.(Obituary)
04/14/1997: 360 words, approx. 1 pages
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...
 


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