Nobel Prize winners

Portrait of Severo Ochoa, MD (1905-1993). Dr. Ochoa was appointed Research Associate at New York University School of Medicine in 1942, after which he became Assistant Professor of Biochemistry (1945), Professor of Pharmacology (1946), Professor of Biochemistry (1954), and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry. Dr. Ochoa was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in1959 for his discoveries in biochemical genetics and nucleic acids.

Portrait of Otto Loewi, MD (1873-1961). Dr. Loewi was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936 for his work on acetylcholine. A refugee of the Second World War, he was invited to join the NYU Department of Pharmacology as Research Professor in 1940.

Portrait of Otto Loewi, MD (1873-1961). Dr. Loewi was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936 for his work on acetylcholine. A refugee of the Second World War, he was invited to join the NYU Department of Pharmacology as Research Professor in 1940.

Portrait of Eric Richard Kandel, MD. Dr. Kandel received his MD from New York University School of Medicine in 1956. At the time of this portrait, he was Professor of Physiology and Psychiatry and Directory of Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Kandel received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000 for his research on memory storage in neurons.