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Eve Marder

Who

Eve Marder · Science & Medicine

What

Neuroscientist of neural circuit stability; National Medal of Science (2023)

When

1948, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Eve Marder is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Neuroscientist of neural circuit stability; National Medal of Science (2023)

How & why

Marder is an American neuroscientist at Brandeis University whose work on the small neural circuits of crustaceans revealed how nervous systems remain stable and functional despite constant variability in their components. She received the US National Medal of Science in 2023. Both her parents were Jewish—her mother born in the Bronx to European-Jewish immigrants, her father born in Vienna.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the US National Medal of Science

Contributions & Sources

Neuroscientist of neural circuit stability; National Medal of Science (2023)

2023

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the US National Medal of Science