Levi-Montalcini
Rita, 1909–2012, U.S. neurologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize 1986.
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How to use Levi-Montalcini in a sentence
Their responses reminded me of Hamburger’s enthusiasm about Levi-Montalcini disproving his own hypotheses.
It perhaps did not help that Hamburger and Levi-Montalcini themselves had muddied the history of the discoveries over the years.
Scientific definitions for Levi-Montalcini
[ lē′vē-mŏn′tl-chē′nē, lĕ′vē-mōn′täl- ]
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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