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Eric Kandel
Sign in to saveAlso known as Eric Richard Kandel, Erich Richard Kandel, Erich Kandel, Eric R. Kandel, Eric R Kandel, E. R. Kandel, E R Kandel, E. Kandel
American neuropsychiatrist
Eric Kandel is an American neuropsychiatrist who has made significant contributions to understanding how the brain works, particularly in the study of memory and learning at the cellular level. His research is important because it has helped explain the biological mechanisms underlying memory formation, advancing our fundamental knowledge of how the brain functions.
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- Born
- 07 November 1929
- Works
- 63
Top works
- Neurociencia y conducta
- Zaburzony umysĹ. Co nietypowe mĂlzgi mĂlwiÄ o nas samych - Kandell Eric [KSIÄĹťKA]
- Essentials Neural Science Beha
- Neural Mechanisms in Behavior
- Molecular Aspects of Neurobiology
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2000
“for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Austria
- Place of birth
- Vienna
- Spouse
- Denise Kandel
- Occupation
- biophysicist
- Employer
- Columbia University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Judaism
- Field of work
- psychiatry
- Image
- Eric Kandel by aquaris3.jpg
- Residence
- United States
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- Commons category
- Eric Kandel
- date of birth
- 1929-11-07
- member of
- Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Erdős number
- 4
- name in native language
- Eric Richard Kandel
- described at URL
- uskudar.edu.tr/tr/bilim-insani/eric-kandel
- P8168
- Marignier
- interested in
- neurobiology
- affiliation string
- Columbia University
- affiliation
- Columbia University
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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