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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.
Eric Kandel is an Austrian-born American neuroscientist who won the Nobel Prize for his discoveries on signal transduction in the nervous system. He studied how memories are stored by chemical signals in nerve cells, from marine snails to humans.
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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Learn about the life and work of Eric Kandel, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discoveries on the molecular basis of memory. He was born in Vienna in 1929, a city that shaped his cultural and intellectual development, but also faced anti-Semitism and oppression.
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Feb 14, 2023 · 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 in 2022.
Eric Kandel is an American neuroscientist who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his research on the molecular basis of memory. He is a professor at Columbia University and a senior investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Oct 1, 2007 · Eric Kandel: From Mind to Brain and Back Again. Awarded the Nobel Prize for work 40 years ago that revealed memory's most basic mechanisms, this psychiatrist-turned-neuroscientist is still...
