Eric Kandel

1929 -

country of citizenship: United States of America, Austria

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Harvard University, Erasmus Hall High School, New York University School of Medicine, Columbia University, Yeshivah of Flatbush

occupation: neurologist, psychiatrist, neuroscientist, psychologist, biochemist, university teacher, biophysicist, international forum participant

award received: Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Great Silver Medal with Star for Services to the Republic of Austria, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Harvey Prize, Canada Gairdner International Award, Wolf Prize in Medicine, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Ralph W. Gerard Prize, NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing, National Medal of Science, Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine, Dickson Prize in Medicine, Rosenstiel Award, Karl Spencer Lashley Award, Viktor Frankl Award, Jean-Louis Signoret Prize, Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research, honorary doctor of the University of Vienna, Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Neuropsychiatric Research, honorary doctorate of the University of Basel, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, honorary doctor of Harvard University, Pour le Mérite, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Great Immigrants

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. Source: Wikipedia (en)