Richard Axel

Richard Axel

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004

Barnard College - Columbia University

“for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system”

Richard Axel is an American molecular biologist and neuroscientist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004 for discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system.

Field
Biology · Neuroscience
Lifespan
1946–