“This saved us years of drudgery.”
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Richard Axel
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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science · American molecular biologist (born 1946) · biochemist · neurologist · university teacher · physician · also Richard Axel, Axel
Born 2 July 1946 · Q211940
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Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018).
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2014).
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2010· 1 entry
Axel attended a birthday party in Paris for Jeffrey Epstein, who had been convicted of sex offenses in 2008
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2008· 1 entry
“He has the ability to make connections that other minds can’t make... He is extremely smart and probing.”
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2007· 1 entry
And was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2014
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2005· 1 entry
Axel received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2004).
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (2003).
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Perl-UNC Prize (2002).
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research (1998).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Rosenstiel Award (1996).
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1991· 1 entry
Buck and Axel cloned olfactory receptors, showing that they belong to the family of G protein coupled receptors
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Richard Lounsbery Award (1989).
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded Alan T. Waterman Award (1982).
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1963· 1 entry
(along with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Allan Lichtman, Ron Silver, and Alexander Rosenberg), received his B
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1946· 1 entry
Born 1946-07-02.
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