George Wald was an American scientist and activist who studied pigments in the retina. He won a share of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit. Wikipedia
Born: November 18, 1906, New York, NY
Died: April 12, 1997 (age 90 years), Cambridge, MA
Education: Columbia University (1932), New York University, Brooklyn Technical High School, and more
Children: Elijah Wald
Partner: Ruth Hubbard (1958–)