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Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus George Wald, the Nobel Prize recipient and peace activist hailed by Time Magazine as one of America's best teachers, died of natural causes Saturday, April 12 at his home in Cambridge...
...member of the Harvard community since 1934, Wald was a pioneer in the study of how people see. His research on the biochemistry of vision earned him the 1967 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology...
...Health Policy initiative has primarily manifested itself in a Ph.D. program with two Harvard schools. It is the first inter-school Ph.D. program and, according to Wald, has gained the reputation of being the best program of its kind in the country...
...Wald says that these are not the only interfaculty topics being researched at Harvard...
This money would go to the central administration rather than to the initiatives directly, but Wald says although the money is allotted to the central administration and the president, the vast majority of funds will be spent by the Faculties in the initiatives...