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DIED. GEORGE WALD, 90, politically engaged biologist whose research on how the eye transmits images to the brain earned him a 1967 Nobel Prize; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A proponent of "survival politics," he became an outspoken Vietnam War opponent, arms-race foe and human-rights advocate...
Because of Hitler's activities, Wald was exiled to the U.S., landing in the Department of Physiology at the University of Chicago, where he remained until becoming a biochemical sciences tutor at Harvard...
...Wald was named Associate Professor of Biology in 1944, and Professor...
...Wald was wed twice. In 1931 he married Frances Kingsley, with whom he had two children, Michael and David...
...Wald is survived by nine grand-children and three great grandchildren...