The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1967
Awarded on: 1967-10-18
"for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye"
Affiliations:
- Harvard University – Cambridge, MA, USA
George Wald
Born: 1906-11-18 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: Nobel Prize-winning American Scientist and Activist
Biography
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.