Eric Kandel

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American neuropsychiatrist

United States AcademicsBorn 1929 · age 96

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Kandel in 1978

Awards 29

2024Grand Cross of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria

2013Foreign Member of the Royal Society

2012Grand Officer of the Order of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria

2012honorary doctorate of the University of Basel

2009Great Immigrants Award

2008Viktor Frankl Award

2008honorary doctor of the University of Vienna

2008honorary doctor of Harvard University

2005Austrian Decoration for Science and Art

2003Thomas William Salmon Medal

2000Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

2000Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine

1999Wolf Prize in Medicine

1997Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order

1997Ralph W. Gerard Prize

1993Harvey Prize

1992Jean-Louis Signoret Prize

1991Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research

1988NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing

1988National Medal of Science

1988Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Neuropsychiatric Research

1987Canada Gairdner International Award

1984Howard Crosby Warren Medal

1983Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

1983Dickson Prize in Medicine

1983Rosenstiel Award

1981Karl Spencer Lashley Award

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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SpouseDenise Kandel

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Richard von Coudenhove-KalergiAlso won Grand Officer of the Order of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria

Thomas J. SargentAlso won NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing

Aaron T. BeckAlso won Thomas William Salmon Medal

António DamásioAlso won Jean-Louis Signoret Prize

Paul LauterburAlso won Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine

Heinz von FoersterAlso won Viktor Frankl Award

About this person

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.

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