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Professor George B. Benedek received his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University in 1953. He is the Alfred H. Caspary Professor of Physics and Biological Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is a member of the Faculty of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences Technology. As an experimental physicist, he has published over one hundred sixty research papers in a wide variety of fields, including high pressure physics, nuclear magnetic resonance, quasielastic light scattering spectroscopy, phase transitions, and critical phenomena in ferromagnets and simple fluids. His recent research focuses on the connection between aggregation, phase separation, and self-assembly of biological macromolecules, particularly regarding their roles in cataract disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and cholesterol gallstone formation. Benedek is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received several prestigious awards, including the American Physical Society’s Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics and the Proctor Medal from the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.