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“I have on the one hand a hatred and on the other a yearning for Vienna. I left when I was nine years old because I was Jewish. And even before 1938, the anti-Semitism in Austria was probably deeper than it was in Germany or in other European countries.”

Quote by Eric Kandel

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Eric Kandel, born on November 7, 1929, is a renowned neuroscientist and psychologist. His groundbreaking research in the fields of memory and brain plasticity earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000, shared with James E. Rothman and Richard A. Axel. Professor Kandel has been a faculty member at Columbia University Medical School, and his work has profoundly influenced our understanding of how the brain processes memory and experience. more

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