
The Nobel committee jointly awarded the Prize to Levi-Montalcini and Stanley Cohen. Her ground-breaking research during the 1950s has been crucial to our understanding of the factors that control the growth of cells, their development, and their maintenance. On October 13, 1986, Rita Levi-Montalcini become only the fourth woman ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.


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"Les Conséquence de la destruction d'un territoire d'innervation peripherique sur le dévelopment des centre nerveuz correspondants dans L'embryon de poulet," in Archive de Biologie (1942) "Selective Growth Stimulating effects of mouse sarcoma on the sensory and sympathetic nervous system of the chick embryo," in Journal of Experimental Zoology (1951) "A Diffusible agent of mouse sarcoma, producing hyperplasia of sympathetic ganglia and hyperneurotization of viscera in the chick embryo," in Journal of Experimental Zoology (1954) "In vitro experiments on the effects of mouse sarcomas 180 and 37 on the spinal and sympathetic ganglia of the chick embryo," in Cancer Research (1954) "NGF: An uncharted route," in Paths of Discovery (1975) "The nerve- growth factor," in Scientific America (1979). National Academy of Sciences (1968) appointed head of the Cell Biology Laboratory of the Italian Council of National Research (1969) retired from Washington University (1977) retired from Italian Council of National Research (1979) jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Stanley Cohen (October 13, 1986).
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(1946) accepted position of research associate, Washington University (1947) promoted to associate professor (1951) undertook research at Institute of Biophysics, Rio de Janeiro (1952) Stanley Cohen joined research team (1953) discovered Nerve Growth Factor (1954) promoted to full professor (1958) death of Giuseppe Levi (1965) established research laboratory in Rome (1961) elected to U.S. Her governess died (1929) admitted to the Turin School of Medicine (1930) her father Adamo Levi died (August 2, 1932) graduated from Turin School of Medicine (1936) fired from Institute of Anatomy (1938) fled to Belgium (1939) returned to Italy (1939) secretly resumed her research (1939) awarded degree in neurology and psychiatry, Turin School of Medicine (1940) read article by Viktor Hamburger (1940) Giuseppe Levi returned to Turin (1941) moved to the country (1942) hid from the Nazis in Florence (1943–44) worked in a refugee camp (1944–46) was reinstated by the Institute of Anatomy (1946) traveled to U.S.

Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research of Brandeis University (1982) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University (1983) Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award (1986) Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1986) U.S. William Thomson Wakeman Award of the National Paraplegic Foundation (1974) Lewis S. 1974), an architect and professor at the University of Turin graduated Turin School of Medicine, summa cum laude degree in Medicine and Surgery, 1936, granted advanced degree in neurology and psychiatry, 1940 never married no children became a U.S.

Born Rita Levi in Turin, Italy, on Apyoungest of four children of Adele (Montalcini) Levi (a painter) and Adamo Levi (an electrical engineer and mathematician) twin sister of Paola Levi-Montalcini (an artist) sister of Gino Levi (d. Italian-born medical doctor and neurobiologist who won the Nobel Prize for her discovery of Nerve Growth Factor.
