Roger Nicoll
{{Short description|American neuroscientist}}
Roger A. Nicoll (born 1941) is an American neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco where he is professor at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology.
Nicoll grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. He studied biology and chemistry at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin before he shifted to medical studies at University of Rochester School of Medicine where he obtained a M.D in 1968. In between he studied electrophysiology for one year at National Institutes of Health where he later returned to work as a researcher. Subsequently, he got a position with the State University of New York 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 neurons.[http://gruber.yale.edu/neuroscience/roger-nicoll 2006 Neuroscience Prize] gruber.yale.edu. Retrieved 23 September 2013
Nicoll has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Physiology.[http://jp.physoc.org/site/misc/RogerNicollSymposium.xhtml 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 National Academy of Sciences
- 1998 Lucia Russell Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award, Lawrence University
- 1999 Bristol Myers Squibb Investigator
- 1999 Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2004 Heinrich Wieland Prize
- 2006 Gruber Prize in Neuroscience
- 2006 Perl-UNC Prize in Neuroscience
- 2008 J. Allyn Taylor International Prize, Robarts Research Institute.
- 2010 National Academy of Science - Neuroscience Award
- 2011 Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award
- 2011 Axelrod Prize - Society for Neuroscience{{Cite web |title=Julius Axelrod Prize |url=https://www.sfn.org/careers/awards/outstanding-career-and-research-achievements-awards/julius-axelrod-prize |access-date=2024-11-03 |website=www.sfn.org |language=en}}
- 2012 Scolnick Prize for neuroscience - MIT{{Cite web |title=Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience |url=https://mcgovern.mit.edu/events/edward-m-scolnick-prize-in-neuroscience/ |access-date=2024-11-03 |website=MIT McGovern Institute |language=en-US}}
- 2014 Grass Lecture - Society for Neuroscience{{Cite web |title=SFN Grass Lecturers – The Grass Foundation |url=https://grassfoundation.org/SfN-grass-lecturers/ |access-date=2024-11-03 |language=en-US}}
- 2014 Ralph W. Gerard Prize - Society for Neuroscience{{Cite journal |last=Esch |first=Teresa |date=2014-11-01 |title=Roger Nicoll Tackles Learning/Disabilities |url=https://www.eneuro.org/content/1/1/ENEURO.0071-14.2014 |journal=eNeuro |language=en |volume=1 |issue=1 |doi=10.1523/ENEURO.0071-14.2014 |issn=2373-2822 |pmid=26464958|pmc=4596135 }}
- 2014 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize - Harvard University
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Category:Scientists from Princeton, New Jersey
Category:Lawrence University alumni
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Category:American neuroscientists
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