Roger A. Nicoll (born 1941) is an American

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at the

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where he is professor at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology. Nicoll grew up in

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. He studied biology and chemistry at

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, Wisconsin before he shifted to medical studies at

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where he obtained a M.D in 1968. In between he studied

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for one year at

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where he later returned to work as a researcher. Subsequently, he got a position with the

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in 1973 where he worked with John Eccles whose work he had got interested in after reading a book by Eccles about using electrodes to record impulses from

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. Nicoll has served on the editorial board of the

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List of awards and honors

*1989 Alden Spencer Award *1994 Member of

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*1998 Lucia Russell Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award,

*1999 Bristol Myers Squibb Investigator *1999 Member of

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*2004

Heinrich Wieland Prize The Heinrich Wieland Prize is awarded annually by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation for outstanding research on biologically active molecules and systems in the areas of chemistry, biochemistry and physiology as well as their clinical importance ...

*2006

Gruber Prize in Neuroscience The Gruber Prize in Neuroscience, established in 2004, is one of three international awards worth US$500,000 made by the Gruber Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. It is awarded annually to sc ...

*2006 Perl-UNC Prize in Neuroscience *2008 J. Allyn Taylor International Prize,

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. *2010 National Academy of Science - Neuroscience Award *2011 Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award *2011 Axelrod Prize - Society for Neuroscience *2012 Scolnick Prize for neuroscience - MIT *2014 Grass Lecture - Society for Neuroscience *2014 Ralph W. Gerard Prize - Society for Neuroscience *2014

Warren Alpert Foundation Prize The Warren Alpert Foundation Prize is awarded annually to scientist(s) whose scientific achievements have led to the prevention, cure or treatment of human diseases or disorders, and/or whose research constitutes a seminal scientific finding that h ...

- Harvard University

References

1941 births Living people Scientists from Princeton, New Jersey Lawrence University alumni University of Rochester alumni University of California, San Francisco faculty American neuroscientists Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Members of the National Academy of Medicine {{US-scientist-stub