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Eric Richard Kandel ( German: [ˈkandəl]; born Erich Richard Kandel, [citation needed] November 7, 1929 [2]) is an Austrian-born American [2] medical doctor who specialized in psychiatry, a neuroscientist and a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.
Apr 25, 2024 · Eric Kandel (born November 7, 1929, Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian-born American neurobiologist who, with Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2000 for discovering the central role synapses play in memory and learning.
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Eric Kandel was born in Vienna, Austria, where he lived until his family emigrated to New York in 1939 to escape the Nazi regime. He studied history and literature at Harvard University, before becoming interested in psychoanalysis, learning and memory.
Eric Kandel Biographical . P rologue: Life in Vienna in the 1930s There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there was little to suggest I would have an academic career.
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Feb 14, 2023 · About Eric R. Kandel. Neuroscientist Eric Kandel, MD, studied memory for more than half a century: breaking new ground in understanding how our brain stores and recalls information. “I get so much pleasure out of science,” says Kandel, the founding codirector of Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, who retired ...
Oct 1, 2007 · Yet neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel looked at the slug 50 years ago and saw a gemlike formal simplicity, which he used to help build the foundations of modern neuroscience.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000 was awarded jointly to Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard and Eric R. Kandel "for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system"
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