George Wald
George Wald · Science & Medicine
Awarded the 1967 Nobel Prize for discovering the biochemical processes of vision in the retina.
1906, New York City, USA — 1997, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
United States
George Wald is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Awarded the 1967 Nobel Prize for discovering the biochemical processes of vision in the retina.
George Wald, the son of Jewish immigrants in New York, spent his career at Harvard studying the chemistry of sight. He showed that vitamin A is a key building block of the visual pigments in the retina, and traced the chemical chain of reactions by which light striking the eye is turned into a nerve signal. This explained how we see and why vitamin A deficiency causes blindness, earning him a share of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Awarded the 1967 Nobel Prize for discovering the biochemical processes of vision in the retina.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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