Eric Kandel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Eric Kandel

American neuropsychiatrist

Date of Birth: 07-Nov-1929

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Profession: psychiatrist, psychologist, neurologist, university teacher, biochemist, neuroscientist, biophysicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Eric Richard Kandel (German: ['kand?l]; born November 7, 1929) is an Austrian-American medical doctor who specialized in Psychiatry, a neuroscientist and a University 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, was awarded the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.