Levi-Montalcini, Rita
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Name (Hebrew)
לוי-מונטלצ'יני, ריטה
Name (Latin)
Levi-Montalcini, Rita
Other forms of name
Montalcini, Rita Levi-
Levi-Montalcini, R. (Rita)
Date of birth
1909-04-22
Date of death
2012-12-30
Place of birth
Turin (Italy)
Place of death
Rome (Italy)
Field of activity
Nerve growth factor
Associate group
Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche (Italy). Istituto di biologia cellulare
Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)
Occupation
Neurologists
Nobel Prize winners
(1986)
Women Nobel Prize winners
Associated Language
eng ita
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Study Week on Nerve Cells, Transmitters and Behaviour (1978 : Vatican City) Semaine d'étude sur le thème Cellules nerveuses, transmetteurs et comportement, 1980 (a.e.)t.p. (Rita Levi-Montalcini) p. xi (Academician)
- Molecular aspects of neurobiology, c1985:CIP t.p. (Rita Levi-Montalcini) t.p. verso, etc. (prof., Dr., Inst. of Cell Biol., CNR, Italy; b. 4/22/09)
- Reti, c1993:cover (R. Levi-Montalcini)
- New York times WWW site, Dec. 31, 2012(in obituary published Dec. 30: Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini; b. Apr. 22, 1909, Turin; d. Sunday [Dec. 30, 2012], Rome, aged 103; Nobel Prize-winning neurologist who discovered critical chemical tools that the body uses to direct cell growth and build nerve networks, opening the way for the study of how those processes can go wrong in diseases like dementia and cancer)
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Rita Levi-Montalcini (1986)
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Kurt Hagblom, Firma Hagblom-Foto, restored by Adam Cuerden, Public domain
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Wikipedia description:
Rita Levi-Montalcini (22 April 1909 – 30 December 2012) was an Italian neurobiologist. She was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with colleague Stanley Cohen for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF). From 2001 until her death, she also served in the Italian Senate as a Senator for life. This honor was given due to her significant scientific contributions. On 22 April 2009, she became the first Nobel laureate to reach the age of 100, and the event was feted with a party at Rome's City Hall.
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