Eric Kandel
Eric Kandel | |
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Kandel in 2013 | |
| Born | Erich Richard Kandel November 7, 1929 Vienna, Austria |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) New York University (MD) |
| Known for | Physiology of learning and memory |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Karl Spencer Lashley Award (1981) Dickson Prize (1983) Lasker Award (1983) National Medal of GSS (1988) Harvey Prize (1993) Wolf Prize in Medicine (1999) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2000) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience |
| Institutions | Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons |
| Notable students | James H Schwartz Tom Carew Kelsey C. Martin Priya Rajasethupathy Scott A. Small Christopher Pittenger |
Eric Richard Kandel (German: [ˈkandəl]; born Erich Richard Kandel, 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. He was a recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons. He shared the prize with Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard.
Kandel was from 1984 to 2022 a Senior Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was in 1975 the founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, which is now the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University. He currently serves on the Scientific Council of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. Kandel's popularized account chronicling his life and research, In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind, was awarded the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.