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Also Known As John Michael O’Keefe
Born November 18, 1939 (age 85) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2014)
Subjects Of Study brain • cognitive mapping • dorsocaudal medial entorhinal cortex • grid cell • hippocampus • place cell • spatial memory

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Lord Adrian. 1956.
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Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn
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British physiologist
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Paul Nurse
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British biochemist
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Sir Henry Dale, 1956.
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Lord Florey.
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Walter Rudolf Hess
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