American scientist Paul Greengard speaks at a press conference in New York on October 9, 2000 where he said he was "thrilled" to receive the Nobel Prize for Medicine. Greengard, of New York's Rockefeller University, [Eric Kandel of Columbia University, and Swede Arvid Carlsson, formerly of the University of Gothenburg, shared the award for studies on how messages move around the nervous system.]