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British-American, Norwegians win 2014 Nobel prize for medicine

STOCKHOLM - American-British scientist John O'Keefe and Norwegians May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser won the 2014 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology for discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain, the award-giving body said on Monday.

 

"The discoveries ... have solved a problem that has occupied philosophers and scientists for centuries," the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute said in a statement when awarding the prize of 8 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million).

 

"How does the brain create a map of the space surrounding us and how can we navigate our way through a complex environment?" the body added.

 


פרסום ראשון: 10.06.14, 12:52