Today (April 27, 1962) is the birthday of Edvard Moser, the Nobel Prize-winning German neuroscientist who studied how memory is stored in the brain.
Edvard Moser was born on April
27, 1962, in Elsund, Germany, to Edvard Paul Moser and Ingborg Annamarie
Herholes. Moses' grandfather, Edvard Moser Lutheran, was a parish priest there.
Moser's father trained as a pipe organ builder. He emigrated to Norway in 1953
with his friend Jacob Pierrot when he was offered a job at a pipe element
workshop in Haramsey. Later they set up their own workshop and built many
church pipe elements in Norway. May-Brit married Moser in 1985 while still a
student. They both announced they were divorcing in 2016.
Edvard graduated from the
University of Oslo in 1990 with a degree in psychology. He later worked as a
research colleague in the medical faculty. There he received his PhD in
Neurophysics from a PhD in 1995. He also studied mathematics and statistics.
Early in his career, he worked under the supervision of Per Anderson. From 1995
to 1997 Richard G. at the Center for Neuroscience at the University of
Edinburgh. Moser underwent postdoctoral training with Morris. He was also a
visiting postgraduate lecturer in John O'Keefe's laboratory at University
College London.
Moser returned to Norway in 1996
to become an Associate Professor of Psychology at the Norwegian University of
Science and Technology (NDNU) in Trondheim. In 1998 he was promoted to full
professor of neuroscience. Moser is also the department head of the NDNU
Institute for Systems Neuroscience. He is a member of the Royal Society of
Science of Norway,] and the Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences. He is also
an Honorary Professor in the Center for Cognitive and Neurological Systems at
the University School of Medicine in Edinburgh.
Edvard Moser has pioneered
research over the past decade on how memory is stored in the brain. Moser has
won several prizes with his wife, May-Britt. The Lucia Cross Orwich Prize and the
Carl Spencer Ilashly Award are some of them. The two shared the 2014 Nobel
Prize in Medicine with John O'Keefe. In 2014 he was recognized as a Foreign
Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.
Source By: Wikipedia
Information: Ramesh, Assistant
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