Levi-Montalcini,Rita

Levi-Montalcini,Rita
Le·vi-Mon·tal·ci·ni (lēʹvē-mŏn'tl-chēʹnē, lĕʹvē-mōn'täl-), Rita. Born 1909.
Italian-born developmental biologist. She shared a 1986 Nobel Prize for the discovery of nerve growth factor.

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  • Levi-Montalcini, Rita — ▪ Italian American neurologist born April 22, 1909, Turin, Italy       neurologist who, with biochemist Stanley Cohen (Cohen, Stanley), shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1986 for her discovery of a bodily substance that… …   Universalium

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