"When I saw the place cells, I realized this may be important." John O'Keefe on a breakthrough

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John O'Keefe was interviewed 6 December, 2014 at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 was divided, one half awarded to John O'Keefe, the other half jointly to May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser "for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain".

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