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Eric Kandel
American neuropsychiatrist.
Life and work
The story behind the role.
American neuropsychiatrist.
Eric Richard Kandel (German: [ˈkandəl]; born Erich Richard Kandel, November 7, 1929) is an Austrian-born American medical doctor who specialized in psychiatry. He was also 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.
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Achievements and distinctions
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American neuropsychiatrist.
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Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
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Grand Officer of the Order of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
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Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
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Harvey Prize
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Canada Gairdner International Award
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Wolf Prize in Medicine
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Ralph W. Gerard Prize
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NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing
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National Medal of Science
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Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine
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Dickson Prize in Medicine
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Rosenstiel Award
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Karl Spencer Lashley Award
Career and education
Employers and institutions
Columbia University
Memberships
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina · Royal Society of London · National Academy of Sciences · Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities · Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz · French Academy of Sciences · American Academy of Arts and Sciences · American Philosophical Society · Austrian Academy of Sciences
Education
Harvard University · Erasmus Hall High School · Grossman School of Medicine · Columbia University · Yeshivah of Flatbush
Fields of work
psychiatry
Major competitions and events
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2013
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