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George Wald was born in New York City in 1906, the youngest son of Jewish immigrants from Germany and Poland. The first member of his family to go to college, he became an award-winning biologist, teaching at Harvard University for forty-three years. In 1966, Time magazine listed him in a cover näytä lisää story as "one of the ten best teachers in the country." Wald's long research career began with his discovery of Vitamin A in the eye. His further explorations of the chemistry and physiology of vision led to a 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit. Wald spoke out on many political and social issues, and his fame as a Nobel laureate brought national and international attention to his views. He was a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War and the nuclear arms race, served on the Russell Tribunal on Human Rights, and worked for social justice in a broad range of national and international settings. In 1997, Wald died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of ninety. näytä vähemmän
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(eng) It is possible but very unlikely that the book on USSR humor is by the Nobel Prize-winning biologist George Wald.

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It is possible but very unlikely that the book on USSR humor is by the Nobel Prize-winning biologist George Wald.

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This set of lectures may have been insightful when first delivered in 1970 but much of the thinking in these areas has developed considerably since then.
 
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Neil_Luvs_Books | Oct 15, 2021 |
This collection of Soviet jokes, mostly satirizing the government and the Soviet way of life, contains some of the corniest jokes I've ever read, and not too many genuinely funny ones. But I am interested in and like to encourage anything that pokes fun at dictatorships such as the U.S.S.R.
 
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burnit99 | Feb 26, 2007 |
This is a reprint of a Scientific American article from August 1954, attempting to put forth a chemical and mechanical model for the beginning of life on Earth. The chemical jargon is kept to a minimum, and the average bright science student would not find this overly difficult, dated as it may be. It may still be of interest, if only for a historical look at the development of scientific thought regarding the origin of life.
 
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