There Is Life After the Nobel Prize

by Eric R. Kandel

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231200145
• ISBN13: 9780231200141
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.1"