May-Britt Moser
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 May-Britt Moser facts

• She and her then-husband, Edvard Moser, pioneered research on the brain's mechanism for representing space together with their mentor John O'Keefe
• They shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with O'Keefe, awarded for work concerning the grid cells in the entorhinal cortex, as well as several additional space-representing cell types in the same circuit that make up the positioning system in the brain
• Moser discovered types of cells that are important for determining position (spatial representation) close to the hippocampus, an area located in the center of the brain
• Moser investigated correlations between the anatomical structure of the hippocampus and social learning in rats
• Moser's work gave the ability for scientists to gain new knowledge into the cognitive processes and spacial deficits associated with human neurological conditions such as Alzheimer's disease
• The Mosers were educated at the University of Oslo and were appointed associate professors in psychology and neuroscience at NTNU in 1996
• They were instrumental in the establishment of the Centre for the Biology of Memory (CBM) in 2002 and the Institute for Systems Neuroscience at NTNU in 2007
• The Mosers were 1 in 5 other couples to win a Nobel Prize