Awards & Winners

George Wald

Date of Birth 18-November-1906
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Scientist
George Wald was an American scientist who is best known for his work with pigments in the retina. He won a share of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit.

Awards by George Wald

Check all the awards nominated and won by George Wald.

1967


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye)

1963


1959


Rumford Prize
(For his studies on the biochemical basis of vision.)

1953


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For his outstanding achievements in explaining the physiology of vision in man.)