The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014
Awarded on: 2014-10-06
"for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain"
Affiliations:
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) – Trondheim, Norway
May-Britt Moser
Born: 1963-01-04 in Fosnavåg, Norway
Gender: female
Field: Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist
Biography
May-Britt Moser is a Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist, who is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She and her former husband, Edvard Moser, shared half of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded for work concerning the grid cells in the entorhinal cortex, as well as several additional space-representing cell types in the same circuit that make up the positioning system in the brain.