Edvard I. Moser – a psychologist and neuroscientist awarded the Nobel Prize – Science in Poland (PAP)

 Norwegian Edvard I. Moser studied mathematics and statistics, as well as psychology and neuroscience, but this discovery in the latter field earned him the Nobel Prize, the highest distinction in the world of science. The researcher received it for his research on spatial memory.
 

The Nobel Committee announced on Monday that the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded three scientists – John O’Keefe and the marriage of May-Britt and Edvard I. Moser. Researchers recognized for an explanation of how to orientate and move in space, as we remember the various places where we live and how we find in our environment.

When in Stockholm announced the winners of Nobel Prizes, Moser traveled on board plane to Munich. According to the agency DPA, learned about the award after landing, he collected the luggage. He called him Professor. Tobias Bonhoeffer of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Neurobiologie in Martinsried, where Nobel Prize winner, will conduct research for three weeks. Surprised Moser received a bouquet of flowers from a representative of the airline you traveled. “He asked me: + Tobias, what happens? Do not understand +” – Bonhoeffer told DPA.

Edvard Moser was born on 27 April 1962. Alesund in Norway. From May-Britt, which have been married for over 30 years, have two daughters aged 23 and 19 years.

Researcher defended at the University of Oslo in mathematics and statistics (1985)., And psychology and neuroscience (1990.). At the same university, in 1995. Received his Ph.D. in the field of neurophysiology. From 1994-96 he worked at the Centre of Neuroscience, the University of Edinburgh, as part of post-doctoral fellowship also conducted experiments in the laboratory of Nobel Prize winners from this year’s third, John O’Keefe at University College London.

Norway Moser returned in 1996., and took the position of associate professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. In the same year he received the title of professor of neurological sciences. In 2002. Became director he founded at the University of Trondheim Centre for the Biology of Memory, in 2007. Founded a Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience.

The research carried out together with his wife resulted in the discovery in 2005. mesh cells located in the entorhinal cortex. Together with the cells places that in 1971. Discovered John O’Keefe, are a component of the positioning in the brain, which is our internal GPS system.

Moser has won numerous awards; many of them got together with his wife and John O’Keefe, including Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2013.) And Karl Spencer Lashley Award. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and the Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences. In 2014. Was elected a member of the American Academy of Sciences. It is considered as one of the highest honors for scientists in the field of natural sciences, medicine, science and technology. (PAP)

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