Levi-Montalcini

[ lee-vee-mon-tl-chee-nee, ley-; Italian le-vee-mawn-tahl-chee-nee ]

noun

1. Rita, 1909–2012, U.S. neurologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize 1986.

Levi-Montalcini

/ lē′vē-mŏn′tl-chē′nē,lĕ′vē-mōn′täl- /

1. Italian-born American developmental biologist who discovered the nerve growth factor (NGF), a bodily substance that stimulates the growth of nerve cells. For this work she shared with American biochemist Stanley Cohen the 1986 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.