Richard Axel - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 2004
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Richard Axel

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 2004
for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system
Together with: Linda B. Buck
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
7/2/1946
place of birth
Brooklyn
Age
80 years
field of work
  • physiology
  • neurology
  • neurobiology
member of
  • American Philosophical Society
  • Royal Society of London
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
educated at
  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
  • Columbia University
  • Stuyvesant High School
occupation
  • neurologist
  • university teacher
  • biochemist
  • physician
employer
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
  • Columbia University
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