The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with one half awarded to John O'Keefe and the other half jointly awarded to May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser for their discovery of cells which constitute a positioning system in the brain. Read more
John O'Keefe
Born: 1939, New York, NY, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: University College, London, UK
May-Britt Moser
Born: 1963, Fosnavåg, Norway
Affiliation at the time of the award: Neural Computation Centre, Trondheim, Norway
Edvard I. Moser
Born: 1962, Ålesund, Norway
Affiliation at the time of the award: Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Trondheim, Norway