Item #H10373 Collected Papers, Vol. II, 1934-1942, Visual Systems, Vitamin A, Physiology of Vision, Miscellaneous papers, Graduate Work. George Wald.
Collected Papers, Vol. II, 1934-1942, Visual Systems, Vitamin A, Physiology of Vision, Miscellaneous papers, Graduate Work
Collected Papers, Vol. II, 1934-1942, Visual Systems, Vitamin A, Physiology of Vision, Miscellaneous papers, Graduate Work
Collected Papers, Vol. II, 1934-1942, Visual Systems, Vitamin A, Physiology of Vision, Miscellaneous papers, Graduate Work
Collected Papers, Vol. II, 1934-1942, Visual Systems, Vitamin A, Physiology of Vision, Miscellaneous papers, Graduate Work
Collected Papers, Vol. II, 1934-1942, Visual Systems, Vitamin A, Physiology of Vision, Miscellaneous papers, Graduate Work

Collected Papers, Vol. II, 1934-1942, Visual Systems, Vitamin A, Physiology of Vision, Miscellaneous papers, Graduate Work

3-ring cloth binder (10 inches tall) collecting offprints from the Journal of General Physiology and other scientific periodicals, from Wald's own library: these are his own copies. This group contains some of his first published works dating back to his graduate school days in the mid 1930s. George Wald's first researches into Vitamin A in the retina, rhodopsin, and a previously unknown carotenoid he called 'retinuene' led to his life's work on the chemistry of vision and the chemical transformations of those vitamins and carotenoids, plus rhodopsin, which in turn became contributions that led to his Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1967, for his "discoveries about the primary physioloigical and chemical processes in the eye." These offprints came from the collection of the Wald family: his collected papers, including these, can be found at Harvard, otherwise, they are very rare both on the market and in institutions. Papers include: The Porphyropsin Visual System (1939), The Visual Systems of Euryhaline Fishes (1941), The Visual system and Vitamins A of th Sea Lamprey (1942), An Experiment in Human Dietary Night-Blindness (1938, with Harold Jeghers and Joseph Arminio), An Experiment in Human Vitamin A-Deficiency (1939, with David Steven), Vitamin A Deficiency, a field study in Newfoundland and Labrador (1941, with David Steven), The Mobilization of Vitamin A by the Sympathico-Adrenal System (1940, with Genevieve Young), The Human Excretion of Carotenoids and Vitamin A (1941, with William R. Carroll and Daniel Sciarra), Experimental Human Vitamin A Deficiency and the Ability to Perform Muscular Exercise (1942, with Lucien Brouha and Robert E. Johnson), Respiratory Effects upon the Visual Threshold (1942, with P. V. Harper, jr., H. C. Goodman and H. P. Krieger), The Visual Acuity and Intensity Discrimination of Drosophila (1934, with Selig Hecht), The Dark Adaptation of Retinal Fields of Different Size and Location (1935, with Selig Hecht and Charles Haig). Item #H10373

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