!!!Kandel, Eric R

Kandel, Eric R., b. Vienna, Nov. 7, 1929, medical scientist, 
Nobel Prize Laureate for Medicine 2000. Emigrated to the USA in 1939; 
studied history and literature at Harvard University, Cambridge, then 
medicine at New York University. 1956-1965 postdoctoral training, 
clinical residency (the latter at Harvard Medical School); 1965-1974 
associate professor at New York University; since 1974 professor in 
the Department of Physiology and Psychiatry at Columbia University, 
New York. 1974-1983 Director of the Center for Neurobiology and 
Behavior; since 1983 head of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; 
since 1992 professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular 
Biophysics at Columbia University. K.´s research has been mainly 
concerned with the biological basis of memory processes. For his 
research on how the efficiency of synapses can be modified and which 
molecular mechanisms take part, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 
Medicine (shared with A. Carlsson and P. Greengard) in 2000.

!Publications
Cellular Basis of Behavior, 1976; Mind and Behavior, 
1980; Principles of Neural Science, 1982 (Neurowissenschaften, 1996; 
ed.).


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