Mosers awarded Fridtjof Nansen Award of Excellence for 2013

May-Britt and Edvard Moser receive diploma and award. Photo:Eirik Furu Baardsen/Det Norske Videnskaps-AkademiFridtjof Nansen Award for excellence in science and medicine is awarded to Professor Edvard I. Moser and Professor May-Britt Moser for pioneering work in memory research.

The Fridtjof Nansen Award of Excellence is awarded to Norwegian researchers, or researchers resident in Norway, who have shown scientific contributions of international significance on a very high level. Prize winners receive a medal, a diploma and 150 000 Norwegian kroner.

The awards are presented by the chairman of The Nansen Foundation and Affiliated Funds, Professor Gunnar Nicolaysen, on the Annual meeting of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters on Friday 3 May 2013.

More on the award, and previous recipients (Norwegian)




2013/05/06 11:41, Hege J. Tunstad