Awarded Grand Cross of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria (2024).
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Eric Kandel
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…
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culture · American neuropsychiatrist · neurologist · psychiatrist · neuroscientist · psychologist · biochemist · university teacher · biophysicist · writer · also Eric Kandel, Eric Richard Kandel, Erich Richard Kandel, Erich Kandel, Eric R. Kandel, Eric R Kandel
Born 7 November 1929 · Q155529
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2013).
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Officer of the Order of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (2012).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Basel (2012).
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2009).
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2008· 4 entries
Awarded Viktor Frankl Award (2008).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Vienna (2008).
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Awarded honorary doctor of Harvard University (2008).
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And Daniela Pollak discovered that conditioning mice to associate a specific noise with protection from harm, a behavior called "learned safety", produces a behavioral antidepressant effect comparable to that of medic
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (2005).
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2003· 1 entry
Won Thomas William Salmon Medal (2003).
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2000· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system.
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Awarded Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine (2000).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2000).
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Initially some Austrian media reported of an "Austrian" Nobel Prize winner, phrasing that Kandel characterized as "typically Viennese: very opportunistic, very disingenuous, somewhat hypocritical"
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Wolf Prize in Medicine (1999).
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Ralph W. Gerard Prize (1997).
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Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1997).
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Harvey Prize (1993).
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Jean-Louis Signoret Prize (1992).
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research (1991).
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1988· 3 entries
Awarded NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing (1988).
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Awarded Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Neuropsychiatric Research (1988).
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Won National Medal of Science (1988).
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1987).
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1984· 1 entry
Won Howard Crosby Warren Medal (1984).
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1983· 4 entries
Awarded Dickson Prize in Medicine (1983).
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Awarded Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1983).
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Awarded Rosenstiel Award (1983).
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Kandel helped form the Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute at Columbia devoted to molecular neural science
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1981· 2 entries
Awarded Karl Spencer Lashley Award (1981).
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And now in its sixth edition, the book is often used as a teaching and reference text in medical schools and undergraduate and graduate programs
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1975· 1 entry
The founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, which is now the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University
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1974· 1 entry
Kandel moved his lab to Columbia University and became founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior
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1966· 1 entry
James Schwartz collaborated with Kandel on a biochemical analysis of changes in neurons associated with learning and memory storage
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1965· 1 entry
Kandel published his initial results, including a form of presynaptic potentiation that seemed to correspond to a simple form of learning
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1962· 1 entry
After completing his residency in psychiatry, Kandel went to Paris to learn about the marine mollusk Aplysia californica from Ladislav Tauc
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1957· 1 entry
William Beecher Scoville and Brenda Milner had recently described the patient HM, who had lost the ability to form new memories after removal of his hippocampus
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1955· 1 entry
Kandel graduated from medical school and learned from Stanley Crain how to make microelectrodes that could be used for intracellular recordings of crayfish giant axons
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1952· 1 entry
Kandel started at the New York University Medical School
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1951· 1 entry
And leaving Kandel's next term schedule at Harvard, besides feeling "deep personal loss" over Viëtor's death, unexpectedly empty
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1929· 1 entry
Born 1929-11-07.
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1898· 1 entry
In Olesko, Galicia (then part of Austria-Hungary)
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