The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000
Awarded on: 2000-10-09
"for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system"
Affiliations:
- Columbia University – New York, NY, USA
Eric R. Kandel
Born: 1929-11-07 in Vienna, Austria
Gender: male
Field: American neuropsychiatrist
Biography
Eric Richard Kandel 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.