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Eric Richard Kandel (German:; born Erich Richard Kandel, [citation needed] November 7, 1929) is an Austrian-born American 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, 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. Learn more about Kandel’s life and career.
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Eric R. Kandel. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000. Born: 7 November 1929, Vienna, Austria. Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. Prize motivation: “for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system” Prize share: 1/3. Life.
Feb 14, 2023 · Eric Kandel is a Nobel laureate neuroscientist who studied memory formation and storage in the brain. He cofounded Columbia's Zuckerman Institute and wrote several books on brain science and art.
Eric Kandel. Biographical. Prologue: 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.
Oct 1, 2007 · Learn how Eric Kandel, a psychiatrist-turned-neuroscientist, revealed the basic mechanisms of memory and synaptic plasticity in the sea slug Aplysia and the human brain. Explore his life story, from fleeing Nazi Austria to winning the Nobel Prize and writing a memoir.
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Eric Kandel is a Nobel laureate and a leading neuroscientist who studies the molecular mechanisms of memory and learning in Aplysia and mice. He is a professor emeritus at Columbia, a senior investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the author of several books on the brain and mind.
