Died 1997-04-12.
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George Wald
George Wald 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.
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Born 18 November 1906 · Died 12 April 1997 · Q295724
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1997· 1 entry
1992· 1 entry
Was elected an Honorary Member of OSA
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1986· 1 entry
To fly to Moscow to advise Mikhail Gorbachev on a number of environmental questions
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1980· 1 entry
Served as part of Ramsey Clark's delegation to Iran during the Iran hostage crisis
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1978· 1 entry
“Research is to see what everybody has seen and think what nobody has thought.”
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1975· 1 entry
Was published in 2012 only by an English magazine
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1970· 1 entry
Wald predicted that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind
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1969· 2 entries
Wald said, "Our government has become preoccupied with death, with the business of killing and being killed
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“Our government has become preoccupied with death, with the business of killing and being killed.”
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Rennes (1968).
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1967· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1967).
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1966· 2 entries
Won Frederic Ives Medal (1966).
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Was awarded the Frederic Ives Medal by the OSA and in 1967 the Paul Karrer Gold Medal of the University of Zurich
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded Rumford Prize (1959).
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1953).
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1950· 1 entry
The American Philosophical Society in 1958, and in 1967 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries in vision
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1934· 1 entry
Wald went to Harvard University where he became an instructor, then a professor
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1933· 1 entry
When Adolf Hitler came to power and life in Europe became more dangerous for Jews
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1931· 1 entry
To Frances Kingsley (1906–1980) and in 1958 to the biochemist Ruth Hubbard
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1927· 1 entry
And his PhD in zoology from Columbia University in 1932
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1906· 1 entry
Born 1906-11-18.
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