21/07/2021
Inspirational π
"I was not always the best student with the highest grades, but my teachers saw something in me and tried to encourage me."
This little girl would grow up to uncover one of the biggest mysteries of our brain - how we know where we are and how we navigate from one place to another. The discovery of grid cells - the brain's inner GPS - led to May-Britt Moser receiving the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Read more: https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/may-britt-moser