Portrait of John O'Keefe
Date
October 2015
Sitter
John Michael O'Keefe (British-American) , Neuroscientist
Creator
Anne-Katrin Purkiss (1959, British/German) , Photographer
Object type
Subject
Description
John O'Keefe in his office, Anatomy Building, University College London, October 2015.
John O'Keefe was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1992 and was on the Council from 1995 to 1996. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014 together with MB Moser and E Moser for the discovery of cells that constitute a position system in the brain, an inner 'GPS system'.
John O'Keefe was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1992 and was on the Council from 1995 to 1996. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014 together with MB Moser and E Moser for the discovery of cells that constitute a position system in the brain, an inner 'GPS system'.
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