10 Years of Nobel Excellence
December 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of the Nobel Prize awarded to May-Britt and Edvard Moser for their discovery of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.
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December 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of the Nobel Prize awarded to May-Britt and Edvard Moser for their discovery of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.
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Professor Moser investigates the neural networks underlying space, time and memory. Her motto is «happy people, happy animals, excellent science”.