NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has
today decided to award The 2014 Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine with one half to John O´Keefe and the other half
jointly to May-Britt Moser
and Edvard I. Moser for their
discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.
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JOHN O'KEEFE
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MAY-BRITT MOSER
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EDVARD MOSER
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Born: 1939,
New York, NY, USA
Affiliation at the
time of the award: University College, London,
United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for
their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the
brain"
Field: physiology,spatial
behaviour
Prize share: ½
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Born: 1963,
Fosnavåg, Norway
Affiliation at the
time of the award: Centre for Neural Computation,
Trondheim, Norway
Prize motivation: "for
their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the
brain"
Field: physiology,
spatial behaviour
Prize share: 1/4
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Born: 1962,
Ålesund, Norway
Affiliation at the
time of the award: Kavli Institute for Systems
Neuroscience, Trondheim, Norway
Prize motivation: "for
their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the
brain"
Field: physiology,
spatial behavior
Prize share: 1/4
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