Principles of Neural Science

Eric R. Kandel

born 1929 · American neuropsychiatrist

• Nobel laureate
• Lasker Award
• National Medal of Science
• Wolf Prize

Profession

Neuroscientist, Physician, Psychologist, Professor

Worked at

Columbia

Studied at

NYU, Harvard, Columbia

Prizes

Lasker Award (1983), National Medal of Science (1988), Wolf Prize (1999), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2000), Canada Gairdner International Award (1987), Harvey Prize (1993), Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1997), Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2013), American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Karl Spencer Lashley Award (1981), Dickson Prize in Medicine (1983), Rosenstiel Award (1983), Howard Crosby Warren Medal (1984), NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing (1988), Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Neuropsychiatric Research (1988), Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research (1991), Jean-Louis Signoret Prize (1992), Ralph W. Gerard Prize (1997), Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine (2000), Thomas William Salmon Medal (2003), Viktor Frankl Award (2008), Pour le Mérite

Won the Nobel for showing how sea slugs form memories.

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James H. Schwartz

1932–2006 · American neurobiologist

• Professor at Columbia

Profession

Neuroscientist, Physician, Professor

Worked at

Columbia

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Thomas M. Jessell

1951–2019 · American biochemist

• Professor at Columbia
• Professor at Harvard
• Fellow of the Royal Society

Profession

Neuroscientist, Biophysicist, Biochemist, Professor

Worked at

Harvard, Columbia

Studied at

Cambridge, University of London

Studied under

Leslie Iversen

Prizes

Kavli Prize in Neuroscience (2008), Canada Gairdner International Award (2012), Fellow of the Royal Society (1996), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2006), NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing (1994), J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine (1996), Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research (2000), March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology (2001), Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Neuropsychiatric Research (2003), Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2006), Perl-UNC Prize (2009), Gruber Prize in Neuroscience (2014), Vilcek Prize (2014), Ralph W. Gerard Prize (2016), EMBO Membership

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