Richard Axel

Richard Axel
Axel in 2014
Born (1946-07-02) July 2, 1946 (age 77)
New York City, US
Education
SpouseCornelia Bargmann
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience
InstitutionsColumbia University
Notable students
Websitewww.axellab.columbia.edu

Richard Axel (born July 2, 1946) is an American molecular biologist and university professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His work on the olfactory system won him and Linda Buck, a former postdoctoral research scientist in his group, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004.

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