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George Wald

1906 - 1997

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George Wald (November 18, 1906 – April 12, 1997) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Wald is the 207th most popular biologist (down from 176th in 2019), the 1,779th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,576th in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, George Wald ranks 207 out of 1,097. Before him are Har Gobind Khorana, César Milstein, Ludwig Reichenbach, Wilhelm Johannsen, George C. Williams, and Hans Driesch. After him are William Carey, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Olaus Rudbeck, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Nikolay Pirogov, and Stephan Endlicher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, George Wald ranks 72. Before him are André Weil, John Dickson Carr, Markos Vafeiadis, Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, Anthony Mann, and Horst Schumann. After him are Hans Aumeier, Yasuo Haruyama, Douglas McGregor, James E. Webb, Nelson Goodman, and Gusztáv Sebes. Among people deceased in 1997, George Wald ranks 60. Before him are Friedrich Hund, Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, Diosdado Macapagal, André Franquin, Charles Brenton Huggins, and Shoichi Yokoi. After him are Masaru Ibuka, Hastings Banda, Miguel Najdorf, Marco Ferreri, Fela Kuti, and Maria Prymachenko.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Wald ranks 1,779 out of 20,380. Before him are Patrick McGoohan (1928), John Fogerty (1945), Myrtle Corbin (1868), Benjamin Butler (1818), Paul Stanley (1952), and Victor Wong (1927). After him are Edward C. Tolman (1886), George Carlin (1937), David Lane (1938), Jaco Pastorius (1951), Michael Rockefeller (1938), and Richard Axel (1946).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, George Wald ranks 40. Before him are Norman Borlaug (1914), Carl Woese (1928), Paul Greengard (1925), Bruce Beutler (1957), Jack Horner (1946), and George C. Williams (1926). After him are Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903), J. Michael Bishop (1936), James Dwight Dana (1813), Eric F. Wieschaus (1947), Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), and Temple Grandin (1947).

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