Author

Books by Eric R. Kandel

Eric R. Kandel is a neuroscientist and professor at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute for Mind, Brain and Behavior. He was born in Vienna in 1929 and emigrated to the United States with his family in 1939. His research on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of memory storage in Aplysia earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000. His other books include Principles of Neural Science (the standard graduate neuroscience textbook, co-authored), The Age of Insight, and Reductionism in Art and Brain Science. He is widely considered one of the most important neuroscientists of the twentieth century.