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1 online resource (1 audio file (120 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Paul Heitsch. |
| Summary |
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." 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. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Kandel, Eric R.
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Columbia University -- Faculty -- Biography.
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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Neuroscientists -- United States -- Biography.
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Medical scientists -- United States -- Biography.
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Nobel Prize winners -- United States -- Biography.
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Neurosciences -- Research.
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Molecular neurobiology -- Research.
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Memory -- Physiological aspects -- Research.
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| Added Author |
Heitsch, Paul.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9798765005330 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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8765005333 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14829079 |
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