Education
Harvard University.
anthropologist geneticist Zoologist
Harvard University.
His work was instrumental in the understanding of retinitis pigmentosa. He also seems to have published the first scientific paper on non-rod non-cone visual sensation. Short biographies may be found at the web site of Georgia College, which keeps the Clyde East. Keeler collection, and at the Guggenheim Foundation, where he was made a Fellow in 1938.
If I went into medicine, I might save the lives of two hundred or more persons, but if I went into research and was fortunate enough to make a biomedical discovery of lasting value, I would affect the knowledge of many physicians and through them I might help to save the lives of thousands as yet unborn.
So I went into my career with my eyes open.
