Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014#

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 was awarded with one half jointly to two members of the Academy, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser, and the other half to John O'Keefe, "for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain".

Press release, by Academia Europaea, October 7, 2014
Press release by the Nobel Prize office, October 6, 2014

Statement by Prof. Sierd Cloetingh, the president of the Academia Europaea:#

"As President of the Academia Europaea, I am pleased and honoured, to be able to offer up my collective congratulations on behalf of all the members of our Academy and across all disciplines. The achievement of Nobel recognition, alongside the many other major international prizes, is a celebration of the best in scholarship. That is the driving ethos of this Academy - to seek to support and encourage the very best in European research and scholarship."

Academia Europaea congratulates Prof. May-Britt Moser and Prof. Edvard Moser to this outstanding distinction! #