George Wald Summary

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... Read more

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... Read more

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, wor... Read more