Levi-Montalcini, Rita
Italian-American neurologist 1909-
Rita Levi-Montalcini, born in Turin, Italy, is a prominent neurologist who discovered nerve-growth factor (NGF), a substance that controls how ...
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Rita Levi-Montalcini
1909-
Italian-born American biologist who with Stanley Cohen won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1986. At the age of 20 Levi-Montalcini convinced her father that she should pursue...
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An Italian and American biologist, Rita Levi-Montalcini (born 1909) discovered the nerve growth factor (NGF), a protein molecule that enhances differentiative processes of the sensory and sympathetic ...
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Rita Levi-Montalcini is recognized for her pioneering research on nerve cell growth. During the 1950s she discovered a protein in the nervous system, which she named the nerve growth factor (NGF). Her...
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Rita Levi-Montalcini revealed a fundamental process for cell growth and differentiation by discovering the hormone-like protein nerve growth factor (NGF). For this work, she received part of the 1986 ...
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Rita Levi-Montalcini revealed a fundamental process for cell growth and differentiation by discovering the hormone-like protein nerve growth factor (NGF). For this work, she received part of the 1986 ...
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Rita Levi-Montalcini revealed a fundamental process for cell growth and differentiation by discovering the hormone-like protein nerve growth factor (NGF). For this work, she received part of the 1986 ...
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Levi-Montalcini, Rita
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini