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 Granit. Wikipedia
At the Kresge Auditorium on the campus of M.I.T., Wald spoke of teaching and learning gone sour, of the doubletalk of our times, of terror and nuclear weapons, of death and life and the future. www.elijahwald.com/generation.html
One project of mine that has not yet reached fruition is a biography or autobiography of my father, George Wald . In the late 1980s, I taped his memoirs, and have twice tried to work this material up into a book, but wiser heads have informed me that it www.elijahwald.com/georgewald.html
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This was begun in the laboratory of Otto Warburg in Berlin-Dahlem and it was there that Dr.Wald first identified vitamin A in the retina. www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1967/wald-bio.html
