Awarded APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology (2020).
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John O'Keefe
John Michael O'Keefe is an American-British neuroscientist, psychologist and a professor at University College London.
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science · American–Irish neuroscientist · neurologist · university teacher · psychologist · scientist · neuroscientist · also John O'Keefe, John O'Keefe (neuroscientist), John M. O'Keefe, John Michael O'Keefe, John O’Keefe, O'Keefe
Born 18 November 1939 · Q1701279
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2019· 1 entry
Was admitted to the Royal Irish Academy as an honorary member
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2016· 2 entries
Awarded Annual Review Prize Lecture (2016).
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Was elected to the National Academy of Sciences
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2015· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the Aix-Marseille University (2015).
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O'Keefe was the guest on BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific
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2014· 6 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.
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Awarded Kavli Prize in Neuroscience (2014).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2014).
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Was a co-recipient of the Kavli Prize awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters with Brenda Milner and Marcus Raichle
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Received the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience "for the discovery of specialized brain networks for memory and cognition", together with Brenda Milner and Marcus Raichle
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Together with May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser; he has received several other awards
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2013).
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Received the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (with Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser)
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Gruber Prize in Neuroscience (2008).
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O'Keefe was awarded the Gruber Prize in Neuroscience
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2007· 1 entry
Received the British Neuroscience Association Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Neuroscience and in 2008 he received the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies European Journal of Neuroscience Award
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Grawemeyer Awards (2006).
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded Feldberg Foundation Prize (2001).
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And the Grawemeyer Award in psychology in 2006 (with Lynn Nadel)
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1996· 1 entry
O'Keefe and Neil Burgess presented data showing shifts in the position and size of place cell firing fields when the barriers defining the environment were shifted
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1992· 1 entry
And a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 1998
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1967· 2 entries
Studied at McGill University, Doctor of Philosophy (1967).
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As a US NIMH postdoctoral research fellow working with the late Patrick Wall
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1964· 1 entry
And a PhD degree in Psychology in 1967, supervised by Ronald Melzack
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1939· 1 entry
Born 1939-11-18.
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