Last week a UiB prof told me shed had to fight with her dept head to be allowed to collaborate with her husband (also a UiB prof) on a project. Shed won over her boss by presenting a list of married, collaborating researchers at UiB, and me and Scott were on it. Yesterday two married Norwegian researchers share the Nobel Prize for their research on how certain brain cells track our location. This 2008 article from Aftenposten explains their research pretty well, but I was particularly struck by the unusual courage NTNU showed in hiring both the Mosers when only one position had been advertised. Not something Id expect from my knowledge of Norwegian academia. You see, the couple had planned to go abroad, not thinking NTNU could meet their requirements: two jobs and a lab. But NTNU did. Congratulations to NTNU and the Mosers for the first Nobel Prize to a Norwegian citizen since 1973, and the first to a researcher actually researching in Norway since 1969, if the Wikipedia is correct. (Heres the bit in the article about married couples: Og det er utlandet som er planen, helt til en professor ved Universitetet i Oslo oppfordrer dem til å søke en stilling i Trondheim. Men det er altså bare én stilling som er lyst ut, og det er ikke nok. De må ha to. Dessuten må de få bygge seg et laboratorium. Store krav fra ferske forskere, mener nok noen, blant dem Edvard og May-Britt. De er forberedt på et avslag. Men NTNU sier ja.)
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 10:42:23 +0000
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