2014 Nobel prize
Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine 2014
About May-Britt and Edvard Moser
The Discovery of Grid Cells
Brain researchers May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser at NTNU's Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience receive this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with John O'Keefe of University College London.
May-Britt and Edvard Moser discovered – in the medial entorhinal cortex, a region of the brain next to hippocampus – grid cells that provide the brain with an internal coordinate system essential for navigation.
–The story of how we discovered the grid cells
The Kavli Institute
News from 2014
- Gala dress with grid cell glitter (10 Dec)
- New findings on how the brain is able to store events (9 Dec)
- "Important to cultivate young talents" (8 Dec)
- Revealed new findings (7 Dec)
- Nobel lectures touch on central discoveries and tantalizing findings (7 Dec)
- The Lecture: A "wow" ending of fog, jazz poetry and a tuba (7 Dec)
- Why Moser's staff made a popcorn noise during the Nobel Lectures (7 Dec)
- "You must be willing to dare" (7 Dec)
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May-Britt and Edvard Moser's discovery of the grid cells that provide the brain with an internal coordinate system essential for navigation.
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NTNU Nobel Laureates
Ivar Giæver, Physics 1973
Lars Onsager, Chemistry 1968
May-Britt Moser, Physiology or Medicine 2014
Edvard Moser, Physiology or Medicine 2014