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

Lawrence University Lawrence University is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Appleton, Wisconsin. Founded in 1847, its first classes were held on November 12, 1849. Lawrence was the second college in the U.S. to be founded as a coeducation ...

in Appleton, 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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.Synaptic mechanisms in the CNS - Symposium to honour Roger A. Nicoll
The Journal of Psychology. Retrieved 23 September 2013

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. The Gruber Prize in Neurosc ...

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

Robarts Research Institute The Robarts Research Institute is a medical research institute at the University of Western Ontario. Staff scientists work to investigate a range of diseases including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer. History ...

. *2010 National Academy of Science - Neuroscience Award *2011 Pasarow Award in Neuroscience *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 - Harvard University

References

1941 births Living people People 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 {{US-scientist-stub