# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-kandel
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:45:12.504Z

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name: "Eric Kandel"
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description: "Eric Richard Kandel 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."
tagline: "American neuropsychiatrist"
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birthDate: "1929-11-07"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump