George Wald
Affiliations: | Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States |
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identified vitamin A in the retina, biochemistry of visionWebsite:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1967/wald.htmlGoogle:
"George Wald"Bio:
(1906 - 1997)
http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/49446.html
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9977&page=298
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1967 was awarded jointly to Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye".
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Cross-listing: Chemistry Tree - Physiology Academic Tree
Parents
Sign in to add mentor| Selig Hecht | grad student | 1932 | Columbia |
| Paul Karrer | post-doc | 1932-1933 | Universität Zürich (Chemistry Tree) |
| Otto Fritz Meyerhof | post-doc | 1932-1933 | Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg (Chemistry Tree) |
| Otto Warburg | post-doc | 1932-1933 | Kaiser Wilhelm Institut, Berlin (Chemistry Tree) |
Children
Sign in to add trainee| Richard Allen Cone | research assistant | Harvard | |
| Josh Wallman | research assistant | Department of Psychology - Harvard University | |
| Rowena Green Matthews | research assistant | 1965 | Harvard (Chemistry Tree) |
| Austen Fox Riggs | grad student | 1956 | Harvard College (Cell Biology Tree) |
| Timothy H. Goldsmith | grad student | 1958 | Harvard |
| John E. Dowling | grad student | 1961 | Harvard |
| Deric Bownds | grad student | 1967 | Harvard |
| Merle S. Bruno | grad student | 1969-1971 | Harvard |
| Donald R. Griffin | post-doc | Harvard | |
| Tom Reuter | post-doc | 1969-1970 | Harvard |
| John Lisman | post-doc | 1972-1974 | Harvard |
| Charles M. Radding | research scientist | 1957-1959 | Harvard Medical School (Chemistry Tree) |
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| Wald G. (1987) Letter Scientist. 1 |
| Wald G. (1986) Profiles in chemistry: How the theory of solutions arose Journal of Chemical Education. 63: 658-659 |
| Epstein SS, Swartz JB, Bingham E, et al. (1984) Cancer and diet Science. 224: 660-668 |
| Leslie CA, Wald G, Gellhorn A, et al. (1982) Arrests in Afghanistan [2] Science. 217: 1202-1204 |
| Wald G. (1982) Choice of book reviewers [8] Chemical and Engineering News. 60: 5+90 |
| Wald G. (1982) Origin of the theory of solutions [6] Science. 217: 1084 |
| Dowling JE, Wald G. (1981) Nutrition classics. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Volume 46, 1960: The biological function of vitamin A acid: John E. Dowling and George Wald. Nutrition Reviews. 39: 134-8 |
| Wald G. (1980) Reason to be introspective? [2] Chemical and Engineering News. 58: 54 |
| Wald G. (1979) Economics and inflation [1] Chemical and Engineering News. 57: 4 |
| Wald G, Rayport S. (1977) Vision in annelid worms. Science (New York, N.Y.). 196: 1434-9 |