What is Paul Greengard?
{{Infobox person |name = Paul Greengard |image = Paul Greengard.jpg |image_size = |caption = |birth_date = {{birth date|1925|12|11|mf=yes}} |birth_place = [[New York City, New York]], U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|2019|4|13|1925|12|11|mf=yes}} |death_place = New York City, New York, U.S. |nationality = [[United States|American]] |relatives = [[Chris Chase]] (sister; died 2013) |spouse = [[Ursula von Rydingsvard]] (married, secondly, in 1985) |children = 2 (by his first marriage) | module = {{Infobox scientist|embed=yes |field = [[Neuroscience]] |work_institutions = [[Rockefeller University]] |prizes = [[Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine]] (2000)<br>[[NAS Award in the Neurosciences]] (1991) }} }} '''Paul Greengard''' (December 11, 1925 &ndash; April 13, 2019) was an [[Americans|American]] [[neuroscientist]] ([[neurobiologist]]), [[biochemist]], and [[pharmacologist]] of [[Jewish]] descent.<ref>[https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2000/greengard-autobio.html www.nobelprize.org]</ref> He was best known for his work on the [[molecule|molecular]] and [[cell (biology)|cellular]] function of [[neuron]]s. In 2000, Greengard, [[Arvid Carlsson]] and [[Eric Kandel]] were awarded the [[Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine]] for their discoveries concerning [[signal transduction]] in the [[nervous system]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rockefeller.edu/research/abstract.php?id=53|title=Paul Greengard profile|publisher=[[Rockefeller University]]|accessdate=2008-09-28|archive-date=2008-09-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080922135126/http://www.rockefeller.edu/research/abstract.php?id=53|url-status=dead}}</ref> Greengard died on April 13, 2019 in [[New York City]] at the age of 93.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pioneering neuroscientist and Nobel laureate Paul Greengard dies at 93 |url=https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/25634-pioneering-neuroscientist-nobel-laur