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Eleven Nobel prizes have been awarded to Unitarians: Robert Millikan and John Bardeen ( twice ) in Physics ; Emily Green Balch, Albert Schweitzer, Linus Pauling, and Geoff Levermore for Peace ; George Wald and David H. Hubel in Medicine ; Linus Pauling in Chemistry, and Herbert A. Simon in Economics.
George Wald, Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their scientific research on the retina.
George Wald won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with retina pigments ( also called visual pigments ), which led to the understanding of the role of vitamin A in vision.
Other notable attendees included consumer protection activist and presidential candidate Ralph Nader ; Landscape Architect Ian McHarg ; Nobel prize-winning Harvard Biochemist, George Wald ; U. S. Senate Minority Leader, Hugh Scott ; and poet, Allen Ginsberg.
Speakers included James Lovelock, George Wald, Mary Catherine Bateson, Lewis Thomas, John Todd, Donald Michael, Christopher Bird, Thomas Berry, Michael Cohen, and William Fields.
" Some of the most famous Massey Lecturers have included Northrop Frye, John Kenneth Galbraith, Noam Chomsky, Margaret Atwood, Ursula Franklin, and Nobel laureates Martin Luther King, Jr., George Wald, Willy Brandt and Doris Lessing.
Experiments by George Wald and others showed that rods are most sensitive to wavelengths of light around 498 nm ( green-blue ), and insensitive to wavelengths longer than about 640 nm ( red ).
Haldan Keffer Hartline ForMemRS ( December 22, 1903 – March 17, 1983 ) was an American physiologist who was a co-winner ( with George Wald and Ragnar Granit ) of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in analyzing the neurophysiological mechanisms of vision.
The Tribunal ’ s thirty-five member panel included three Nobel Prize winners — Sean MacBride, Adolfo Perez Esquivel and Professor George Wald — and ten eminent jurist, theologians, academics and political figures.
along with Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald " for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye ".
George Wald ( November 18, 1906 – April 12, 1997 ) was an American scientist who is best known for his work with pigments in the retina.
* John E. Dowling, " George Wald, 1906 – 1997: A Biographical Memoir " in Biographical Memoirs, Washington, D. C .: The National Academy Press ( National Academy of Sciences ), Volume 78, 298: 317.
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