Roger Nicoll

Roger A. Nicoll (born 1941) is an American neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco where he is professor at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology.

Nicoll grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. He studied biology and chemistry at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin before he shifted to medical studies at University of Rochester School of Medicine where he obtained a M.D in 1968. In between he studied electrophysiology for one year at National Institutes of Health where he later returned to work as a researcher. Subsequently, he got a position with the State University of New York in 1973 where he worked with John Eccles whose work he had got interested in after reading a book by Eccles about using electrodes to record impulses from neurons.

Nicoll has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Physiology.

List of awards and honors

• 1989 Alden Spencer Award
• 1994 Member of National Academy of Sciences
• 1998 Lucia Russell Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award, Lawrence University
• 1999 Bristol Myers Squibb Investigator
• 1999 Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2004 Heinrich Wieland Prize
• 2006 Gruber Prize in Neuroscience
• 2006 Perl-UNC Prize in Neuroscience
• 2008 J. Allyn Taylor International Prize, Robarts Research Institute.
• 2010 National Academy of Science - Neuroscience Award
• 2011 Pasarow Award in Neuroscience
• 2011 Axelrod Prize - Society for Neuroscience
• 2012 Scolnick Prize for neuroscience - MIT
• 2014 Grass Lecture - Society for Neuroscience
• 2014 Ralph W. Gerard Prize - Society for Neuroscience
• 2014 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize - Harvard University