{"id":3183,"date":"2014-10-07T23:39:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T04:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2014-10-07T23:39:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T04:39:10","slug":"mcgill-alumnus-wins-nobel-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/mcgill-alumnus-wins-nobel-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"McGill Alumnus wins Nobel Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John O\u2019Keefe (Photo: David Bishop, UCL, source<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n

McGill graduate John O\u2019Keefe won the 2014 Nobel prize in medicine for his\u00a0discovery in 1974 of brain cells that makes it possible for us to orient ourselves, acting like inner-GPS. Professor O\u2019Keefe earned his phD at McGill in 1967 in physiological psychology.<\/p>\n

In 1971 O’Keefe was part of a team that discovered a type of nerve cells which only activated when a rat was in a specific location in a room. He shares the Nobel prize with a Norwegian couple of researchers, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser.<\/p>\n

Professor O\u2019Keefe is now director of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre in Neural Circuits and Behaviour at University College London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

McGill graduate John O\u2019Keefe won the 2014 Nobel prize in medicine for his\u00a0discovery in 1974 of brain cells that makes it possible for us to orient ourselves, acting like inner-GPS. Professor O\u2019Keefe earned his phD at McGill in 1967 in physiological psychology. In 1971 O’Keefe was part of a team that discovered a type of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[200,2209,849],"class_list":["post-3183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-neurology","tag-nobel-prize","tag-quebec-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/okeefe_postcard.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Pl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3185,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions\/3185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}