The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004
Awarded on: 2004-10-04
"for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system"
Affiliations:
- Columbia University – New York, NY, USA
Richard Axel
Born: 1946-07-02 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American molecular biologist
Biography
Richard Axel is an American molecular biologist and university professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His work on the olfactory system won him and Linda Buck, a former postdoctoral research scientist in his group, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004.