PSYCHOLOGIST

Edvard Moser

1962 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edvard Moser has received more than 229,038 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Edvard Moser is the 161st most popular psychologist (up from 169th in 2019), the 170th most popular biography from Norway (up from 176th in 2019) and the most popular Norwegian Psychologist.

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  • 230k

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  • 53.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Edvard Moser ranks 161 out of 235. Before him are Wilfred Bion, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Julian Rotter, James J. Gibson, Reuven Feuerstein, and Arthur Janov. After him are Arnold Gesell, Endel Tulving, Charlotte Bühler, Edgar Rubin, Nise da Silveira, and Stanley Schachter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Edvard Moser ranks 110. Before him are Melissa Sue Anderson, Manute Bol, Nikolai Denkov, Antti Rinne, Manuel Amoros, and Julio Salinas. After him are Paula Abdul, Adam Baldwin, Gina Gershon, John Hannah, Claudia Sheinbaum, and Sumi Jo.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Edvard Moser ranks 170 out of 1,039. Before him are Hjalmar Andersen (1923), Anja Breien (1940), Petter Dass (1647), Aasmund Olavsson Vinje (1818), Carl Anton Larsen (1860), and Gunnar Staalesen (1947). After him are Hjalmar Johansen (1867), Berit Mørdre (1940), Ole Ellefsæter (1939), Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899), Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847), and Ole-Johan Dahl (1931).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Norway

Among psychologists born in Norway, Edvard Moser ranks 1. 

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