NOBEL WINNER DR ERIC KANDEL AND COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT RUPP.
Dr. Eric Kandel (R) Columbia University Professor of Physiology and cell biophysics, psychiatry, biochemistry and molecular biophysics is congratulated by Columbia University President George Rupp at a news conference in New York, October 9, 2000, after Kandel was awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Dr. Kandel, who was recognized for his pioneering work to understand the molecular basis of memory, shares the prize with Arvid Carlsson of the University of Goteborg, Sweden and Paul Greengard of the Rockefeller University in New York for thieir contributions to the field of neuroscience.
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