May-Britt Moser: Quick Facts

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Born	January 4, 1963 (age 63) • Norway
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (2014)
Notable Family Members	spouse Edvard I. Moser
Subjects Of Study	brain • cognitive mapping • dorsocaudal medial entorhinal cortex • grid cell • hippocampus • place cell • spatial memory

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May-Britt Moser smiling, wearing a headset microphone, at an indoor event.

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Robert Koch

Robert Koch

German bacteriologist

Edvard Moser stands smiling in a laboratory, wearing a light blue sweater, with shelves of scientific supplies and equipment visible in the background.

Edvard I. Moser

Norwegian neuroscientist

John O'Keefe

John O’Keefe

British-American neuroscientist

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Torsten Wiesel

Swedish biologist

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Thomas C. Südhof

German-American neuroscientist

Egas Moniz

António Egas Moniz

Portuguese neurologist

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David Hunter Hubel

American biologist

Walter Rudolf Hess

Walter Rudolf Hess

Swiss physiologist

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Roger Wolcott Sperry

American biologist

Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1956

Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian

British electrophysiologist

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Carl Cori

American biochemist

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Gerty Cori

American biochemist

Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Pavlov

Russian physiologist

Ehrlich, Paul

Paul Ehrlich

German medical scientist

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Thomas Hunt Morgan

American biologist

Hans Bethe.

Hans Bethe

American physicist

Sir Alexander Fleming sits holding a petri dish in one hand, wearing a suit and bow tie, with papers stacked beside him.

Alexander Fleming

Scottish bacteriologist

Konrad Lorenz

Konrad Lorenz

Austrian zoologist

Karl Deisseroth wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie, smiling at the camera with a blue and white event backdrop behind him.

Karl Deisseroth

American psychiatrist and bioengineer

Bruce A. Beutler.

Bruce A. Beutler

American immunologist