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Eric Kandel

1929 - Today

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Eric Richard Kandel (German: [ˈkandəl]; born Erich Richard Kandel, November 7, 1929) is an Austrian-born American medical doctor who specialized in psychiatry, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eric Kandel has received more than 787,833 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Eric Kandel is the 109th most popular physician (down from 108th in 2019), the 179th most popular biography from Austria (up from 180th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Austrian Physician.

Eric Kandel is a neuroscientist who is most famous for his research on the hippocampus. He discovered that the hippocampus is the part of the brain that is responsible for memory storage.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Eric Kandel ranks 109 out of 726. Before him are William T. G. Morton, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Jens Christian Skou, Frederick Chapman Robbins, James Parkinson, and Ronald Ross. After him are Ulf von Euler, Jonas Salk, Andrew Schally, Arvid Carlsson, Friedrich Miescher, and Niels Kaj Jerne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Eric Kandel ranks 46. Before him are Lennart Meri, Graham Hill, Richard E. Taylor, Bruno Cremer, Milorad Pavić, and Helmut Rahn. After him are Werner Arber, Bill Evans, Zoltán Czibor, Christa Wolf, Yevgeny Primakov, and Gudrun Burwitz.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Eric Kandel ranks 179 out of 1,424. Before him are Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1718), Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857), Alfred Schütz (1899), Maria Mandl (1912), Josef Stefan (1835), and Alois Brunner (1912). After him are Karl Seitz (1869), Otto of Freising (1114), Mercédès Jellinek (1889), Elizabeth of Austria (1437), Eduard Strauss (1835), and Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Austria

Among physicians born in Austria, Eric Kandel ranks 6. Before him are Hans Asperger (1906), Hans Selye (1907), Aribert Heim (1914), Róbert Bárány (1876), and Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857). After him are Irmfried Eberl (1910), Leopold Auenbrugger (1722), Victor Babeș (1854), Bénédict Morel (1809), Paul Neumann (1875), and Fritz Klein (1932).

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