Please answer the following question: Facts: - institution: stanford university - field: vision - awards: european inventor of the year -lrb- 2006 -rrb- - birth date: 02 march 1938 - name: lubert stryer - citizenship: united states - image: lubert stryer portrait 2008.jpg - birth place: tianjin , china - alma mater: university -lrb- m.d. -rrb- of chicago -lrb- b.s. -rrb- harvard medical school Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of lubert stryer .
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lubert stryer -lrb- born march 2 , 1938 , in tianjin , china -rrb- is the mrs. george a. winzer professor of cell biology , emeritus , at the stanford university school of medicine .his research over more than four decades has been centered on the interplay of light and life .in 2007 he received the national medal of science from president bush at a ceremony at the white house for elucidating the biochemical basis of signal amplification in vision , pioneering the development of high density micro-arrays for genetic analysis , and authoring the biochemistry textbook .stryer received his b.s. degree from the university of chicago in 1957 and his m.d. degree from harvard medical school .he was a helen hay whitney research fellow in the department of physics at harvard and then at the mrc laboratory of molecular biology in cambridge , england , before joining the faculty of the department of biochemistry at stanford in 1963 .in 1969 he moved to yale to become professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry , and in 1976 , he returned to stanford to head a new department of structural biology .