# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-wald
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:32:58.484Z

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name: "George Wald"
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description: "George Wald was an American scientist and activist who studied pigments in the retina. He won a share of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump