Paul Greengard was an American neuroscientist, born in New York City in 1925, best known for his work on the molecular and cellular function of neurons. After wartime service as a Navy electronics technician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a degree from Hamilton College, he turned to biophysics and took his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University. He worked at Geigy, Yale University and other institutions before joining Rockefeller University in 1983, where he was Vincent Astor Professor. In 2000 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Arvid Carlsson and Eric Kandel for discoveries about signal transduction in the nervous system.
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Paul Greengard (December 11, 1925
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was an American neuroscientist best known for his work on the molecular and cellular function of neurons
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He was Vincent Astor Professor at Rockefeller University
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were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system
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was an American neuroscientist
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was an American neuroscientist best known for his work on the molecular and cellular function of neurons
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He was Vincent Astor Professor at Rockefeller University
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Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at Yale University
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best known for his work on the molecular and cellular function of neurons
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