Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel condemns 'censorship' of scientists
Listen to interview at Noting that it's "a terrible time for science" in the U.S., Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel has compared the effects of government science policy to the Eisenhower-McCarthy era, when scientists were persecuted for their political beliefs. ...... Kandel's remarks came during an interview with Science & the City, the webzine of the New York Academy of Sciences, about his new memo...Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel to discuss the 'New Science of the Mind'
How did Eric Kandel, a native of Vienna who majored in history and later escaped from the Nazis become one of the world's most famous neuroscientists? How did his career evolve from early studies of reflexes in the lowly squid to the founding of a bioengineering firm whose work could some day develop treatments for Alzheimer's? How did his personal quest to understand learning and memory by stu...