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...Wald's Work...
Hubel and Weisel said their research was not related to that done by Dr. George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology. Wald's research on visual pigments earned him a Nobel Prize in Biology...
...George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, has opposed the idea of a separate undergraduate science center ever since 1962. He believes that close physical contact between the professor, graduate students and undergraduates is essential to the present methods of instruction, and that this would be lost if his classes were moved to the science center. "We wouldn't know how to give that course three blocks away," Wald says about Nat Sci 5, "the undergraduates would be getting a hell of a lot poorer instruction than now." Wald fears that labs in the science center might become "easy, mechanical, prepared...
...Wald's basic objection is to cutting undergraduates off from research labs and their professors. This problem is particularly acute for biology and biochemistry; as Wald comments, objections to the science center seem to drop off "as the square of the distance." The Physics Department is happy with the original proposals, and most Chemistry professors like the idea and hope to free space in their own buildings for more research work...
...Wald suggests that one way to avoid isolating undergraduates in the Center would be to introduce high-level research groups into the building. Williams strenuously objects to this idea, citing the "expansive" habits of researchteams which "will spread out like an advancing wave and will finally take over the whole." Williams sees the question of distance affecting not the quality of the education but merely the convenience of the professor...