George Wald (November 18, 1906 – April 12, 1997) was an American scientist and activist who studied pigments in the retina. He won a share of the 1967...
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from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-21. Retrieved 2019-03-24. Dantzig, George; Wald, Abraham (1951). "On the Fundamental Lemma of Neyman and Pearson". The...
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Box: The Journey of Chris Strachwitz. Wald was born in 1959 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His parents were George Wald (co-recipient of the 1967 Nobel Prize...
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17, 1983) was an American physiologist who was a co-recipient (with George Wald and Ragnar Granit) of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
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retinene is retinal; there is also retinoic acid"—George Wald (1967). Retinal Visual cycle Wald, George (1967). "Nobel Lecture: The Molecular Basis of Visual...
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German-American novelist, short story writer, and critic (d. 1949) 1906 – George Wald, American neurobiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)...
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Physiology or Medicine in 1967 along with Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical...
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Margaret Atwood, Ursula Franklin, George Steiner, Claude Levi Strauss, and Nobel laureates Martin Luther King Jr., George Wald, Willy Brandt, and Doris Lessing...
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photochemistry of vision in vertebrates and invertebrates. In 1967, she and George Wald shared the Paul Karrer Gold Medal for their work in this area. In the...
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Jerome Irving Wald (September 16, 1911 – July 13, 1962[citation needed]) was an American screenwriter and a producer of films and radio programs. Born...
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chemists, David Adriaan van Dorp and Jozef Ferdinand Arens. In 1967, George Wald was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine ".....
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historian Florence Wald (1917–2008), "mother of the American hospice movement" František Wald (1861–1931), German-Czech chemist George Wald (1906–1997), American...
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physics; Emily Green Balch, Albert Schweitzer and Linus Pauling for peace; George Wald and David H. Hubel in medicine; Linus Pauling in chemistry; and Herbert...
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Hans Bethe Manfred Eigen; Ronald George Wreyford Norrish; George Porter Ragnar Granit; Haldan Keffer Hartline; George Wald Miguel Ángel Asturias None 1968...
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opsins (LWS and MWS), leaving humans with 4 visual opsins in 3 classes. George Wald received the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his experiments...
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vitamin B12: George Whipple, George Minot and William P. Murphy (1934), Alexander R. Todd (1957), and Dorothy Hodgkin (1964). In 1967, George Wald, Ragnar...
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humanity: International relations Aurelio Pecci; President, The Club of Rome George Wald; Scientist, Nobel Prize winner Norman Borlaug; Nobel Peace Prize winner...
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enzymatic pathway of 11-cis retinal is sometimes called Wald's visual cycle after George Wald (1906–1997), who received the Nobel Prize in 1967 for his...
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will endure: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love." George Wald from A Generation in Search of a Future: "I think we've reached a point...
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people. In 1967, George Wald shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work on chemical visual processes in the eye. Wald had demonstrated...
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including Augusto Pinochet, in Chile. Four Nobel Prize laureates – George Wald, Linus Pauling, David Baltimore and Salvador Luria – wrote letters in...
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responsible for vision, as discovered in 1958 by Nobel laureate biochemist George Wald and co-workers. The absorption provokes a cis–trans isomerization that...
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Hans A. Krebs Michael Heidelberger George Wald 1952 Frank Macfarlane Burnet 1951 Karl Friedrich Meyer 1950 George Wells Beadle 1949 André Cournand William...
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National Audubon Society. Speakers included James Lovelock, Lynn Margulis, George Wald, Mary Catherine Bateson, Lewis Thomas, Thomas Berry, David Abram, John...
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by the German physiologist Wilhelm Friedrich Kühne (1837–1900). When George Wald discovered that rhodopsin is a holoprotein, consisting of retinal and...
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primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye" 1967 George Wald New York City, U.S. "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological...
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changing images, is less accurate than that of cones. Experiments by George Wald and others showed that rods are most sensitive to wavelengths of light...
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polio vaccine Howard Temin, reverse transcriptase, Nobel Prize (1975) George Wald, retina pigmentation, Nobel Prize (1967). Bret Weinstein, evolutionary...
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As an undergraduate, and for three years thereafter, she worked with George Wald studying a new intermediate in the bleaching of the visual pigment rhodopsin...
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undergraduate-instruction facilities far from the department's main quarters. Professor George Wald argued that this would degrade the quality of instruction. There was...
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