Eric Kandel

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Eric Kandel
Kandel in 2013
Born	Eric Richard Kandel (1929-11-07) November 7, 1929 (age 94) Vienna, Austria
Education	Harvard University (BA) New York University (MD)
Known for	Physiology of learning and memory
Spouse	Denise Bystryn ​ (m. 1956)​
Children	2
Awards	Karl Spencer Lashley Award (1981) Dickson Prize (1983) Lasker Award (1983) National Medal of GSS (1988)[1] Harvey Prize (1993) Wolf Prize in Medicine (1999) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2000)
Scientific career
Fields	Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
Institutions	Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Notable students	James H Schwartz Tom Carew Kelsey C. Martin Priya Rajasethupathy Scott A. Small

Eric Richard Kandel (German: [ˈkandəl]; born Erich Richard Kandel,^{[citation needed]} November 7, 1929^[2]) is an Austrian-born American^[2] 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.

He is a Senior Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was also 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,^[3] was awarded the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.