Eric R. Kandel
Born in 1929
Science
Eric Richard Kandel is an Austrian-American neuroscientist and psychiatrist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000 for his research on memory storage in neurons.
Born in Vienna, he emigrated to the United States as a child to escape Nazi persecution.
Kandel became a professor at Columbia University and a Senior Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
His work bridged the gap between psychology and neurobiology, revolutionizing our understanding of learning and memory at the cellular and molecular levels.
Kandel's research on the sea slug Aplysia provided crucial insights into the mechanisms of memory formation, earning him international recognition in the field of neuroscience.
