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'''George Wald''' ({{LifeData|1906-11-18|1997-04-12}}) was an American scientist who is best known for his work with pigments in the retina. He won a share of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit.
He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1950 and in 1967 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries in vision. In 1966 he was awarded the Frederic Ives Medal by the OSA and in 1967 the Paul Karrer Gold Medal of the {{UNI|University of Zurich|UZH}}.
Professor Wald was inspired to question [[circumcision ]] by [[Van Lewis]], his student at Harvard. As a result, Wald wrote an essay on [[circumcision]], which he submitted to ''The New Yorker '' for publication. William Shawn, editor, rejected the essay. Wald could not publish during his life.
Wald later served on the advisory board of a Jewish anti-circumcision group, [[Ronald Goldman]]'s [[Circumcision Resource Center]].
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* [{{REFweb |url=http://www.mendocomplain.com/references/1153-2/ |title=George Wald "Circumcision"] at |publisher=[[Men Do Complain]] |date=1975 |accessdate=2022-07-26}}* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{URLwikipedia|George_Wald|George Wald|2022-07-26}}* {{REFweb |url=http://stopinfantcircumcision.org/crick-wald.htm |title=Nobel Laureates for Genital Integrity: Francis Crick - George Wald |last=Lewis |first=Van |init=V |author-link=Van Lewis |date=2002-04-05 |accessdate=2022-07-26}}
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