Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
British-American John O'Keefe and Norwegians May-Britt and Edvard Moser won the 2014 Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering the brain's navigation system and giving clues as to how strokes and Alzheimer's disrupt it.
John O'Keefe
Born in 1939 in New York City, Keffe holds both American and British citizenships.
Keefe is currently Director of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre in Neural Circuits and Behaviour at University College London.
He received his doctoral degree in physiological psychology from McGill University, Canada in 1967. Later, he moved to England for postdoctoral training at University College London.
He has remained at University College and was appointed Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in 1987.
May-Britt
Britt was born in Norway in 1963. She is a Norwegian citizen.
At present, Britt is the Director of the Centre for Neural Computation in Trondheim.
She studied psychology at the University of Oslo together with her future husband and co-Laureate Edvard Moser. She received her Ph.D. in neurophysiology in 1995.
She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh and subsequently a visiting scientist at University College London before moving to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim in 1996.
May-Britt Moser was appointed Professor of Neuroscience in 2000.
Edvard Moser
Moser was born in 1962 in Norway. Currently, he is the director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience in Trondheim.
He obtained his Ph.D. in neurophysiology from the University of Oslo in 1995.
He was a postdoctoral fellow together with his wife and co‐Laureate May‐Britt Moser, first at the University of Edinburgh and later a visiting scientist in John O´Keefe´s laboratory in London.
In 1996 they moved to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, where Edvard Moser became Professor in 1998.
