Eric Kandel

Eric Richard Kandel 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. He shared the prize with Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard.

7 November 1929

Born on the same birth date (7 November 1929): Jesús de Polanco • Lila Kaye

Born on the same birth day (7 November): Barry Robson • Christian Gómez • Doukissa Nomikou • James Franklin (cricketer) • Jeff Milton • Martín Palermo • Raphaël Salem

Born in the same month (November 1929): Alan Simpson (scriptwriter) • Alan and Marilyn Bergman • Berry Gordy • Betta St. John • Dick Clark • Franciszek Kokot • Gabriel Ochoa Uribe • George Moscone • Grace Kelly • Hans Magnus Enzensberger • Jimmy Piersall • June Squibb • LaVern Baker • Lu Chao-Hsuan • Nicholas Mavroules • Norm Zauchin • Peter Boizot • Robert Gover • Shakuntala Devi • Shirley Crabtree