Levi-Montalcini

American  

[lee-vee-mon-tl-chee-nee, lay-, le-vee-mawn-tahl-chee-nee] / ˈli viˌmɒn tlˈtʃi ni, ˈleɪ-, ˈlɛ viˌmɔn tɑlˈtʃi ni /

noun

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

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Levi-Montalcini Scientific  

/ 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.

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Levi-Montalcini

For us: Nobel laureate and humanitarian Rita Levi-Montalcini, who worked in a home lab when driven out of academia by Mussolini.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 11, 2014

In the years following the discovery, Dr. Levi-Montalcini, Dr. Cohen and others described a large family of such growth-promoting agents, each of which worked to regulate the growth of specific cells.

From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2012

The family returned at the close of the war, in 1945, and Dr. Hamburger soon invited Dr. Levi-Montalcini to work for a year in his lab at Washington University.

From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2012

Said Nobel Committee Member Kerstin Hall: "Every single discovery in the field of cell growth factors has followed closely in the footsteps of Levi-Montalcini and Cohen."

From Time Magazine Archive

Since then, scientists have refocused their attention on nerve-growth factors, first identified in 1951 by Rita Levi-Montalcini of Washington University in St. Louis, who studied neural development in chick embryos.

From Time Magazine Archive

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