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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

ERIC R. KANDEL

Title: Senior Investigator & University Professor
Affiliation:   Columbia University
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    New York, New York 10032 USA
Gender:   Male
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Award Discipline:   Biological Sciences
Award Year:   1988
Citation:   "For discovering the first cellular and molecular mechanisms contributing to simple learning and memory."
    Presented by President Reagan in a White House ceremony on July 15, 1988.
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Nobel Laureate:   Physiology or Medicine, 2000

 

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