Toy car · Welcome to the Nobel Prize Laureate Collection

ID-nummer

2015.007.001

Titel

Toy car

Objektkategori

Spel & leksaker

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For Eric Kandel, this toy car is associated with memories from his childhood in Vienna in the 1930s.

When Kandel turned nine, he received a remote-controlled model car that had wished for. Two days later, on 9 November 1938, the November pogroms took place, when the Nazis persecuted Jews in Germany and Austria. The Kandel family was forced to leave their home, which was then looted. The toy car was lost, but Kandel never forgot it.

Later in life, Kandel devoted himself to research on the physiological foundations of memory: how memories are preserved in brain cells. In this context, he has told people about his memory of the toy car and received similar cars as gifts. This is one of those gifts.

Eric Kandel donated the toy car to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2015.

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Eric Kandel