May-Britt Moser
May-Britt Moser
May-Britt Moseris a Norwegian psychologist, neuroscientist, and head of department of the Centre for Neural Computation at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. 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...
NationalityNorwegian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth4 January 1963
CountryNorway
I was trained to be very tough. My mom told me I shouldn't cry; I shouldn't be afraid of anything.
It is so important to allow children to bloom and to be driven by their curiosity.
I've trained myself to find time to exercise relaxation of the body. I have these programs - I just listen to the instructions, and they're simple. Sometimes you just hold your hand tight and keep your breath - you hold it, hold it, feel all the tension, and then relax.
Whenever I have given lectures to a large audience before, I have always looked for an ending that gives a 'wow' feeling.
As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy.
Some women choose to stay at home and be housewives. If they are happy with it, then it's a wonderful choice. But I know I couldn't do that. I couldn't be a housewife.
It's not fair to look at me and my husband as a couple when it comes to work. In the lab we are colleagues. We have the same vision and we both are very ambitious. I think ambitious people find ambitious people to play with.