Eric Kandel

Eric Richard Kandel is an Austrian-born American physician and neuroscientist who trained in psychiatry. He was a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University and founded its Center for Neurobiology and Behavior in 1975, now the Department of Neuroscience. From 1984 to 2022 he was a senior investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons, shared with Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard. His account In Search of Memory won the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.