Rita Levi-Montalcini
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1986
“for their discoveries of growth factors”
Rita Levi-Montalcini was an Italian neurobiologist. She shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986 for discoveries of growth factors. At the time of the award she was affiliated with the Institute of Cell Biology of the C.N.R. in Italy.
- Field
- Biology · Neuroscience
- Lifespan
- 1909–2012