Stumbled on this post from Leonard Sweet on Google+: https://plus.google.com/112866432453100404517/posts/dNeUvFoF3YH  George Wald (1906-1997) won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1967. Late in life (06 October 1980) he wrote a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe in which he put the prize in perspective:  “The truth is, what one really needs is not Nobel…