- Eric Richard Kandel is an Austrian-American neuropsychiatrist
Born: | 07 November 1929 Comment | How old is Eric Kandel in 2024? / Age: | 94 years
| Zodiac sign: | Scorpio |
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Eric Kandel facts
- 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, who had studied psychoanalysis, wanted to understand how memory works
- Following the advice of his mentor Harry Grundfest, Kandel pursued a reductionist approach to studying the nervous system, searching for subject animals with large and basic neural structures
- Kandel made his most famous breakthrough working with the sea slug Aplysia californica, which has large nerve cells amenable to experimental manipulation and is a member of the simplest group of animals known to be capable of learning
- Kandel is a University Professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University
- 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 Award for Science and Technology
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