There Is Life After the Nobel Prize by Eric R. Kandel - 9780231200141

There Is Life After the Nobel PrizeAuthor(s): Eric R. Kandel\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Columbia University Press, United States\nImprint: Columbia University Press\nISBN-13: 9780231200141, 978-0231200141\nSynopsis\nOne 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, Kandels wife, Denise, said when she heard this. Sociologists had found that Nobel Prize winners often did not contribute much more to science, she explained.\n\nIn this book, Kandel recounts his remarkable career since receiving the Nobel in 2000or his experience of proving to his wife that he was not yet completely dead intellectually. He takes readers through his labs scientific advances, including research into how long-term memory is stored in the brain, the nature of age-relate.