Richard Axel

American molecular biologist · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1946 · age 80

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.

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2018Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesAward2014Foreign Member of the Royal SocietyAward2004Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineAward2003Canada Gairdner International AwardAward2002Perl-UNC PrizeAward1998Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience ResearchAwardMore about this1996Rosenstiel AwardAward1989Richard Lounsbery AwardAward1982Alan T. Waterman AwardAward1946Born2 July 1946

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Spouse Cornelia Bargmann

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Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences2018

Foreign Member of the Royal Society2014

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2004

Canada Gairdner International Award2003

Perl-UNC Prize2002

Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research1998

Rosenstiel Award1996

Richard Lounsbery Award1989

Alan T. Waterman Award1982

John Jay Award

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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.

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