Dr. Eric Kandel in the New Yorker

 Kandel, who is eighty-four, won a Nobel Prize in 2000 for his studies of the molecular mechanisms of memory. “Now I’m working on how memory is perpetuated,” he said, describing his research at Columbia medical school, where he is a professor. “I’m studying how you remember your first love experience for the rest of your life.” 
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