Kandel eric biography

He was a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons. He shared the prize with Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard.

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She came from an Ashkenazi Jewish family. At that time Kolomyya was part of Austria-Hungary. At the beginning of World War I , his parents moved to Vienna , Austria , where they met and married in Eric Kandel was born on November 7, , in Vienna. Shortly after, Eric's father established a toy store. Although thoroughly assimilated and acculturated, the family sensed the Nazi danger and, unlike others, left Austria after the country had been annexed by Germany in March at great expense.

As a result of Aryanization Arisierung , attacks on Jews had escalated and Jewish property was being confiscated. When Eric was 9, he and his brother Ludwig, 14, boarded the Gerolstein at Antwerp, Belgium , and joined their uncle in Brooklyn on May 11, , to be followed later by his parents. After arriving in the United States and settling in Brooklyn, Kandel was tutored by his grandfather in Judaic studies and was accepted at the Yeshiva of Flatbush , from which he graduated in Kandel's undergraduate major at Harvard was History and Literature.