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Eric Kandel
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Person

Eric Kandel

b. 1929

American neuropsychiatrist

Born
7 Nov 1929 · Vienna
Part ofAustria112 BCE – todayJudaism74 BCE – today

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Showing 112 years
  1. 7 Nov 1929BornBorn in Vienna
  2. 1981AwardKarl Spencer Lashley Award
  3. 1983AwardAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
  4. 1983AwardDickson Prize in Medicine
  5. 1983AwardRosenstiel Award
  6. 1984AwardHoward Crosby Warren Medal
  7. 1987AwardCanada Gairdner International Award
  8. 1988AwardNAS Award for Scientific Reviewing
  9. 1988AwardNational Medal of Science
  10. 1988AwardRobert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Neuropsychiatric Research
  11. 1991AwardBristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research
  12. 1992AwardJean-Louis Signoret Prize
  13. 1993AwardHarvey Prize

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1929 – today).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

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.

Text from the Wikipedia article Eric Kandel, CC BY-SA 4.0

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