Howard Eichenbaum

Howard B. Eichenbaum (October 16, 1947 – July 21, 2017) was an American psychologist and neuroscientist of Jewish descent. 
He studied the hippocampus. He was a university professor and director of the Center for Memory and Brain at Boston University, having previously worked at Wellesley College. He was the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal "Hippocampus".
Eichenbaum died on July 21, 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts from complications of back surgery at the age of 69.