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Today, be sure to catch the 2014 Nobel Prize lectures in Physiology or Medicine taking place at Aula Medica at Karolinska Institutet in Solna, Sweden at 13:00 Sunday 7 December. Archived on YouTube should you not catch it live. You can hear John O'Keefe, Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser talk about the work that is recognized this week, Grid Cells, Place Cells and Memory.
"Science is the field where we can make the impossible possible." Dr. May-Britt Moser
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The Nobel Lectures in Physics, Chemistry and Economic Sciences will be in Aula Magna, Stockholm University, 9.00 a.m. CET
Watch the live webcast here
The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall will be 4.30 p.m. CET and can also be viewed at the above link.
It looks to be an informative and celebratory week!
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