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George Wald
Full Name of the recipient | George Wald |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Year of Award | 1967 |
Share in Award | 33.3% |
Award Shared with | Ragnar Granit (33.3%) Haldan Keffer Hartline (33.3%) |
Motivation for the Award | for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA |
Place of Birth | New York, NY, United States USA |
Date of Birth | 18 November 1906 |
Age at the time of Award | 60 years |
Place of Death | Cambridge, MA, United States USA |
Date of Death | 12 April 1997 |