John O'Keefe
American British neuroscientist, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
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John O'Keefe is an American-British neuroscientist who won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the brain's navigation system. His research fundamentally changed our understanding of how the brain creates internal maps of space and enables us to navigate our surroundings.
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- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,201x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,536x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,306x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,191x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
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John Michael O'Keefe (born November 18, 1939) is an American-British neuroscientist, psychologist and a professor at University College London.
O'Keefe discovered place cells in the hippocampus, and that they show a specific kind of temporal coding in the form of theta phase precession. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014, together with May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser; he has received several other awards.
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1939 birthsAcademics of University College LondonAcademic staff of the Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyAmerican fellows of the Royal SocietyAmerican Nobel laureatesAmerican people of Irish descentAPA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology recipientsBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyBritish neuroscientistsBritish Nobel laureatesBritish people of Irish descent