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What is the first name with which Kandel was born?

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The answer is Erich. Kandel was born in Vienna, Austria in 1929 and was initially given the name Erich by his parents. However, he later changed it to Eric when he moved to the United States. Kandel is a renowned neuroscientist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000 for his work on the physiological basis of memory storage in the brain.
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