Women Nobel Prize awardees
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48 women in total have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2015. 16 of these women have been awarded a Nobel Prize in Science. Marie Curie, being double winner, this makes a total of 17 Nobel Prizes in Sciences and 49 Nobel prizes overall.
RTS has consecrated a topic on the careers and trajectories of female scientists who were awarded a Nobel Prize.
On 11 October, EPFL is welcoming one of them, May-Britt Moser, laureate of the 2016 Erna Hamburger price.
May-Britt Moser is a Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist. Interested in the neural basis of spatial location and cognition, she has been a pioneer in research on the brain's mechanism for representing space. Together with Edvard Moser and John O'Keefe, she was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
The conference as well as the prize award ceremony will take place on Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 17h30 at EPFL Rolex Learning Center, Forum Rolex.
Attendance is free, but registration is required.
