Sir
John Dowling1 pays a well-deserved tribute to George Wald's great contributions to the chemistry of vision.
Wald was also concerned with the disappearance of human beings. He said, in 1975, that he found it difficult “to see how the human race will get itself much past the year 2000”.
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Dowling, J. Nature 387, 356 ((1997)).
Wald, G. Progressive, December 1975, pp 22-24.
Efron, E. The Apocalypse (Simon and Shuster. New York. 1984).
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Jukes, T. George Wald believed in Apocalypse now. Nature 388, 13 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/40251
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