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John O'Keefe
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American British neuroscientist, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
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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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2014
“for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Occupation
- scientist
- Employer
- University College London
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Ronald Melzack
- Field of work
- neurobiology
- Official website
- iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=JOKEE52
- Image
- John O'Keefe (neuroscientist) 2014.jpg
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- Commons category
- John O’Keefe (neuroscientist)
- date of birth
- 1939-11-18
- name in native language
- John O’Keefe
- student
- Edvard Moser
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- affiliation string
- University College London (UCL)
- affiliation
- University College London
- interested in
- neurobiology
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Encyclopedic overview
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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