{"product_id":"there-is-life-after-the-nobel-prize-hardcover","title":"There Is Life After the Nobel Prize - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric R. Kandel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eThere Is Life After the Nobel Prize\u003c\/i\u003e is a candid account of the working life of an acclaimed scientist.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEric R. Kandel is University Professor Emeritus and professor emeritus of physiology and cellular biophysics, psychiatry, biochemistry, molecular biophysics, and neuroscience at Columbia University. He is founding codirector of Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute, founding director of Columbia's Kavli Institute for Brain Science, and Sagol Professor Emeritus of Brain Science at the Zuckerman Institute. He was also a senior investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1984 to 2022. In 2000, Kandel was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of learning and memory. He has been awarded twenty-four honorary degrees. Kandel is the author of \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), \u003ci\u003eReductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e (Columbia, 2016), \u003ci\u003eThe Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), and \u003ci\u003eEssays on Art and Science\u003c\/i\u003e (Columbia, 2024). He is also a coauthor of \u003ci\u003ePrinciples of Neural Science\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), the standard textbook in the field of neuroscience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.1 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 07, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48214086320376,"sku":"9780231200141","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/5czDOLA2gj9780231200141.webp?v=1783599412","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/there-is-life-after-the-nobel-prize-hardcover","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}