Eric R. Kandel
Neuroscientist and psychiatrist
Eric R. Kandel is an Austrian-born American neuroscientist and psychiatrist who won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research on memory storage in neurons.
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Born 1929 in Vienna, Austria
About Eric R. Kandel
Eric Kandel was born in Vienna in 1929 and became a medical doctor who specialized in psychiatry. He was also a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. He shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard, for work on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons. He was a senior investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1984 to 2022. In 1975 he started the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior as its founding director, and it later became Columbia's Department of Neuroscience. Kandel also wrote a book about his life and research, In Search of Memory, which won the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. His books include The Disordered Mind.