Eric Kandel

Who is this?

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.

Career

1. 1929
   Born
2. 1983
   Won Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
3. 1987
   Won Canada Gairdner International Award
4. 1993
   Won Harvey Prize
5. 1997
   Won Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
6. 2012
   Won Grand Officer of the Order of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
7. Member of German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
8. Member of Royal Society
9. Member of National Academy of Sciences
10. Notable work: The age of the unconscious

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Vienna
• •Citizenship: United States, Austria
• •Known as: neurologist, psychiatrist, neuroscientist, psychologist
• •Spouse: Denise Kandel