The Most Famous
PSYCHOLOGISTS from Norway
This page contains a list of the greatest Norwegian Psychologists. The pantheon dataset contains 235 Psychologists, 1 of which were born in Norway. This makes Norway the birth place of the 31st most number of Psychologists behind Bulgaria, and Georgia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Norwegian Psychologists of all time. This list of famous Norwegian Psychologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Edvard Moser (b. 1962)
With an HPI of 53.48, Edvard Moser is the most famous Norwegian Psychologist. His biography has been translated into 52 different languages on wikipedia.
Edvard Ingjald Moser (pronounced [ˈɛ̀dvɑɖ ˈmoːsər]) is a Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist, who as of May 2024 is a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014 with long-term collaborator and then-wife May-Britt Moser, and previous mentor John O'Keefe for their work identifying the brain's positioning system. The two main components of the brain's GPS are grid cells and place cells, a specialized type of neuron that respond to specific locations in space. Together with May-Britt Moser he established the Moser research environment. In 1996 he was appointed as associate professor in biological psychology at the Department of Psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU); he was promoted to professor of neuroscience in 1998. In 2002, his research group was given the status of a separate "centre of excellence". Edvard Moser has led a succession of research groups and centres, collectively known as the Moser research environment.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Norwegian psychologists born between 1962 and 1962. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Norwegian psychologists include Edvard Moser.
