Original: Eric Richard Kandel (born November 7, 1929) is an American neuropsychiatrist who was a recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons.
Simplified: Eric Richard Kandel (born 7 November 1929 in Vienna, Austria) is a Jewish American neuropsychiatrist. Kandel won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000 for describing the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons.