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Levi-Montalcini was born on 22 April 1909 in Turin, [11] to Italian Jewish parents with roots dating back to the Roman Empire. [12] [13] [14] She and her twin sister Paola were the youngest of four children. [15]
Rita Levi-Montalcini and Stanley Cohen discovered NGF in the 1950s while faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis. The critical discover was done by Levi-Montalcini and Hertha Meyer at the Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1952.
Stanley Cohen (November 17, 1922 – February 5, 2020) was an American biochemist who, along with Rita Levi-Montalcini, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986 for the isolation of nerve growth factor and the discovery of epidermal growth factor. He died in February 2020 at the age of 97. [3] [4]
Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012), Italian neurologist (Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine 1986 for growth factors) Marianne V. Moore (graduated 1975), aquatic ecologist; Ann Haven Morgan (1882–1966), American zoologist; Ann Nardulli (1948–2018), American endocrinologist
Viktor Hamburger (July 9, 1900 – June 12, 2001) [1] [2] was a German-American professor and embryologist.His collaboration with neuroscientist Rita Levi-Montalcini resulted in the discovery of nerve growth factor. [3]
Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012), Nobel laureate for her work in neurobiology Raffaella Rumiati (fl. from 2003), cognitive neuroscientist Maria Grazia Spillantini (fl. from 1987), researching the mechanisms leading to neurodegeneration
Featured are prominent biologists such as Nobel prize laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini (along with her artist twin sister Paola Levi-Montalcini), Martin Raff, Polly Matzinger, Pierre Golstein, and Nobel laureate Robert Horvitz.
Two women received the award: Grazia Deledda in 1926, and Rita Levi-Montalcini in 1986. [7] The 21 prizes are distributed as follows: six for physics, literature, and medicine; one for chemistry, peace, and economic sciences.