May-Britt Moser

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Nobel laureate human neuroscientist university professor

May-Britt Moser is a Norwegian neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for her discovery of grid cells, which are crucial for the brain’s spatial navigation system.

Aliases (1)

May-Britt Moser (honorary doctorate, not student) ×1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nobel laureate → human → neuroscientist → university professor →
academicDegree	PhD in neurophysiology →
awardReceived	Fridtjof Nansen Award for Outstanding Research → Kavli Prize in Neuroscience → Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine → Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize → Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine →
coFounderOf	Centre for the Biology of Memory → Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience →
countryOfBirth	Norway →
countryOfCitizenship	Norway →
dateOfBirth	1963-01-04 →
doctoralAdvisor	Per Andersen →
educatedAt	University of Oslo →
familyName	Moser →
fieldOfWork	memory research → neuroscience → spatial cognition → systems neuroscience →
givenName	May-Britt →
knownFor	discovery of grid cells → research on hippocampus and entorhinal cortex → research on the brain’s spatial navigation system →
languageSpoken	English → Norwegian →
memberOf	National Academy of Sciences → Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters → Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters →
name	May-Britt Moser →
nationality	Norwegian →
nobelPrizeCategory	Physiology or Medicine →
nobelPrizeYear	2014 →
notablePublication	2005 paper describing grid cells in the rat entorhinal cortex →
placeOfBirth	Fosnavåg →
positionHeld	professor of neuroscience at Norwegian University of Science and Technology →
researchFocus	grid cells in medial entorhinal cortex → head direction cells and place cells → neural basis of spatial representation →
sexOrGender	female →
sharesNobelPrizeWith	Edvard I. Moser → John O’Keefe →
spouse	Edvard I. Moser →
workInstitution	Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience → Norwegian University of Science and Technology →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
University of Oslo →	hasNotableAlumni
Uppsala University ("May-Britt Moser (honorary doctorate, not student)") →	hasNotableAlumnus
University of Oslo →	hasNotableStaff
May-Britt Moser →	name
Edvard Moser →	sharesNobelPrizeWith
Edvard Moser →	spouse