Talk:George Wald

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Though it is widely believed that Wald held a Columbia Ph.D., the truth is that he never received the degree. He completed his coursework (earning an M.A. from Columbia in the process) and successfully defended his dissertation, but could not afford to deposit 200 copies of it with the university's library as was required at the time. By the time he had the funds to meet this requirement he had become sufficiently well-established in his field that he felt he didn't need a diploma, so he just kept the money.