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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.
He is a Senior Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was also 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.
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Memory Hackers (2016)
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GenderMale
Birthday1929-11-07 (94 years old)
Birth PlaceWien, Austria
ReligionJudaism
CitizenshipsAustria, United States of America
ResidencesUnited States of America, United States of America
AwardsAustrian Decoration for Science and Art, Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine, Pour le Mérite, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Wolf Prize in Medicine, National Medal of Science, Rosenstiel Award, Harvey Prize, Ralph W. Gerard Prize, Jean-Louis Signoret Prize, NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Canada Gairdner International Award, Dickson Prize in Medicine, Viktor Frankl Award, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Great Immigrants, Karl Spencer Lashley Award, Grand Officer of the Order of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria, Howard Crosby Warren Medal, Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research, honorary doctor of the University of Vienna, honorary doctor of Harvard University, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Neuropsychiatric Research, honorary doctorate of the University of Basel
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