GEORGE WALD, 90; NOBEL LAUREATE, HARVARD BIOLOGIST, PEACE ACTIVIST

The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | April 14, 1997| | Copyright

George Wald of Cambridge, Nobel Prize-winning biologist, peace activist, and professor emeritus of biology at Harvard University, died at his home Saturday after two years of declining health. He was 90.

One of the nation's first academics to come out against the United States' involvement in Southeast Asia, he was considered a hero by many students in the 1960s for his opposition to the Vietnam War.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in the Physiology of Medicine in 1967 for his explanation of how vitamin A is critical to sight, Mr. Wald also received national recognition for a speech he made at ...

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