George Wald –
BiographyGeorge Wald –
BiographyGeorge Wald was born in New York City on November
18th, 1906, of immigrant parents, Isaac, who had come from a village near Przemysl,
in what was then Austrian Poland, and Ernestine Rosenmann, from a small village
near Munich, in Bavaria. After attending public primary and secondary I schools
in Brooklyn, he received the degree of
Bachelor of Science from Washington Square
College of New York University in 1927; and then took graduate work in zoology
at Columbia University, from which he received the Ph.D. in 1932. During this
graduate period he was a student and research assistant of Professor Selig Hecht.On
receiving the Ph. D. he was awarded a National Research Council Fellowship in
Biology (1932-1934). This was begun in the laboratory of Otto Warburg in Berlin-Dahlem
and it was there that Dr.Wald first identified vitamin A in the retina. Vitamin
A had just been isolated in the laboratory of Professor Paul Karrer in Zurich,
and Dr. Wald went to Karrer's laboratory to complete the identification. That
done, he spent a period in the laboratory of Otto Meyerhof, at the Kaiser Wilhelm
Institute in Heidelberg. The second year of the fellowship was spent in the
laboratories of the Department of Physiology at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Wald came to Harvard in the fall of 1934 as a tutor in Biochemical Sciences
and has been there ever since; as Instructor and Tutor in Biology (1935-1939);
Faculty Instructor (1939-1944); Associate Professor (1944-1948); and Professor
of Biology (since 1948). He was
visiting Professor of Biochemistry at the University
of California for the summer term, 1956.
In 1939 Dr. Wald received the Eli Lilly Award for «Fundamental Research
in Biochemistry» from the American Chemical Society. In 1952 he toured
the Southwest as a National Sigma Xi lecturer. In 1953 he received the Lasker
Award of the American Public Health Association «in recognition of his
outstanding discoveries in biochemistry with special reference to the changes
associated with vision and the function of vitamin A».In 1955 he was awarded
the Proctor Medal of the Association for Research in Ophthalmology, and in 1959
the Rumford Medal by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1966 he was
awarded the Ives Medal of the Optical Society of America; and in May, 1967,
jointly with his wife Ruth Hubbard, the Paul Karrer Medal by the University
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Dr. Wald was elected to the National
Academy of Sciences in 1950 and to the
American Philosophical Society in 1958. He is a Fellow of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences in Boston, and of the Optical Society of America. In 1963-1964
he was a Guggenheim Fellow, spending the year at Cambridge University, England.
In 1957 Dr. Wald received the honorary degree of M. D. from the University of
Berne; in 1958 an honorary D. Sc. from Yale University; in 1962 honorary D.
Sc. from Wesleyan University; in 1965 honorary D. Sc. from New York University;
in 1966 honorary D. Sc. from McGill Univ.; 1968 D. Sc. from Clark Univ. and
from Amherst College.
Dr. Wald is a member of the American Society of Biological Chemists; the Optical
Society of America; the Assoc. for Research
in Ophthalmology; Sigma Xi; American
Chemical Society; and the A.A.A.S.
George Wald died on April 12, 1997.