There Is Life After the Nobel Prize

Eric R. Kandel (Columbia University Medical Center)

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Columbia University Press
07 December 2021

Autobiography: science, technology & engineering; History of science

One day in 1996, the neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel took a call from his program officer at the National Institute of Mental Health, who informed him that he had been awarded a key grant. Also, the officer said, he and his colleagues thought Kandel would win the Nobel Prize. ""I hope not soon,"" Kandel's wife, Denise, said when she heard this. Sociologists had found that Nobel Prize winners often did not contribute much more to science, she explained.

In this book, Kandel recounts his remarkable career since receiving the Nobel in 2000-or his experience of proving to his wife that he was not yet ""completely dead intellectually."" He takes readers through his lab's scientific advances, including research into how long-term memory is stored in the brain, the nature of age-related memory loss, and the neuroscience of drug addiction and schizophrenia. Kandel relates how the Nobel Prize gave him the opportunity to reach a far larger audience, which in turn allowed him to discover and pursue new directions. He describes his efforts to promote public understanding of science and to put brain science and art into conversation with each other. Kandel also discusses his return to Austria, which he had fled as a child, and observes Austria's coming to terms with the Nazi period. Showcasing Kandel's accomplishments, erudition, and wit, There Is Life After the Nobel Prize is a candid account of the working life of an acclaimed scientist.

By: Eric R. Kandel (Columbia University Medical Center)
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9780231200141
ISBN 10: 0231200145
Pages: 120
Publication Date: 07 December 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Eric R. Kandel is a University Professor and the Sagol Professor of Brain Science at Columbia University, where he is also codirector of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, and a senior investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 2000 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of learning and memory. He is the author of In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind (2006), The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present (2012), Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures (Columbia, 2016), and The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves (2018).

Reviews for There Is Life After the Nobel Prize

Eric Kandel is a scientific giant. As in his other wonderful books, he has a fascinating tale to tell in this one, and does it well. A great story to read. -- Joseph E LeDoux, Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science, New York University, and author of <i>The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains</i>