Word: wald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...human eye, says Biology Professor George Wald of Harvard, is like a camera, with a slow film for bright light and a fast film for dim light. At a Cleveland meeting of the Society of Biological Chemists, Dr. Wald told how he and two associates have duplicated in a test tube the action of the eye's fast film...
...find out how rhodopsin works, Biologist Wald extracted a protein called opsin from the eyes of freshly killed animals and mixed it with vitamin A and two enzymes (organic catalysts): alcohol oxidase (from horse livers) and cozymase (from yeast). When this mixture is placed in the dark, the enzymes convert the vitamin A to retinene, a yellow pigment. Then the retinene combines with the opsin to form bright red rhodopsin...
Experiments on the phenomenon, long an enigma, have been going on here for over a year. George Wald, professor of Biology, Ruth H. Hubbard, research fellow in Biology, and Paul K. Brown, reported to the Society last year that they could manufacture synthetic rhodopsin, a red pigment found in the retina which helps translate light waves into the sensation of sight...
World famous research professors abound in the department. A lot of them are good lecturers, too, William H. Weston is rated tops. Kenneth V. Thimann, Frederick L. Hisaw, Alfred S. Romer, and George Wald all win praise for interesting well-planned courses...
...Storm Warning skillfully exploits this situation both as exciting melodrama and as a frontal assault on the KKK. Shrewd Producer Jerry Wald also manages to make the picture inoffensive, and even palatable, to most Southern moviegoers. To do so, he passes up chances to give authentic flavor to the movie's locale. Though the town is identified as Southern and looks realistically lived in, none of its citizens speaks with a Southern accent, and nothing about the appearance and customs of the town or its inhabitants sets them apart from California or the Middle West...