Richard Axel
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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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William ThurstonAlso won Alan T. Waterman Award
Julius AxelrodAlso won Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research
Roderick MacKinnonAlso won Perl-UNC Prize
Armand HammerAlso won John Jay Award
James RothmanAlso won Richard Lounsbery Award
Sidney AltmanAlso won Rosenstiel AwardAbout this person
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. 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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Born 1946 · age 80
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