What is John O'Keefe?
{{Infobox scientist |name = John O'Keefe |image = John O'Keefe (neuroscientist) 2014.jpg |image_size = |caption = O'Keefe in September 2014 |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1939|11|18|mf=y}} |birth_place = [[New York City, New York]] |death_date = |death_place = |residence = |citizenship = {{Plainlist| * United States * United Kingdom }} |nationality = |ethnicity = |field = [[Neuroscience]] |work_institutions = [[University College London]] |alma_mater = {{Plainlist| * [[City College of New York]] (B.A., 1963) * [[McGill University]] (M.A, 1964; Ph.D., 1967) }} |doctoral_advisor = [[Ronald Melzack]] |doctoral_students = |thesis_title = Response properties of amygdalar units in the freely moving cat |thesis_year = 1967 |thesis_url = http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/R/-?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=70142 |known_for = Discovering [[place cell]]s |influences = |influenced = |prizes = {{Plainlist| * [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (1992) * [[FMedSci]] (1998) * [[Kavli Prize]] (2014) * [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (2014) }} |religion = |footnotes = |signature = |website = {{URL|www.ucl.ac.uk/cdb/research/okeefe}} }} '''John O'Keefe''', [[Royal Society|FRS]] [[FMedSci]] (born November 18, 1939) is an American-British [[neuroscientist]]. He is a [[professor]] at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour and the Research Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at [[University College London]]. He is one of the most notable alumni of [[City College of New York]]. == Biography == O'Keefe is known for his discovery of [[place cell]]s in the [[hippocampus]]. He discovered that they show a kind of coding for places. This is a positioning system, an “inner GPS” in the brain that makes it possible to orient ourselves in space. In 2014, he received the [[Kavli Prize]] in [[Neuroscien