biography
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Levi-Montalcini, Rita
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pronunciation:
[layvee montalchee
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1909– )
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| biography:
| Neurobiologist, born in Turin, Italy. While a practising physician, she resisted German occupation by hiding in Florence and aiding war refugees (1943–5). She taught at the University of Turin (1945–7), then went to the USA to join Washington University (St Louis) (1947–77). Her studies of nerve growth factor, isolated (1952) from cultures of mouse tumour cells, won her and collaborator Stanley Cohen the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. She divided her time between the USA and the National Research Council in Rome (1961–89), then moved to Rome permanently to be with her twin sister (1989). |
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