Rita Levi-Montalcini OMRI OMCA (US: /ˌleɪvi ˌmoʊntɑːlˈtʃiːni, ˌlɛv-, ˌliːvi ˌmɒntəlˈ-/ LAY-vee MOHN-tahl-CHEE-nee, LEV-ee -⁠, LEE-vee MON-təl-, Italian:...

Levi-Montalcini is an Italian surname. Notable people with this surname include: Gino Levi-Montalcini, Italian architect and designer Rita Levi-Montalcini...

1922 – February 5, 2020) was an American biochemist who, along with Rita Levi-Montalcini, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986 for...

and Adele Montalcini, were Sephardi Jews. She was one of four children. Her fraternal twin sister was the neurologist Rita Levi-Montalcini, who won the...

to be described. Since it was first isolated by Nobel Laureates Rita Levi-Montalcini and Stanley Cohen in 1956, numerous biological processes involving...

professor and embryologist. His collaboration with neuroscientist Rita Levi-Montalcini resulted in the discovery of nerve growth factor. In 1951 he and...

Montalcini, a painter. Like his sisters Anna (1905–2000), Rita (1909–2012), a scientist, and Paola (1909–2000), a painter, he took the surname Levi-Montalcini...

who later won the Nobel prize: Salvador Luria, Renato Dulbecco and Rita Levi-Montalcini. He was admitted as a national member of the Accademia Nazionale...

fled Nazi Germany to avoid persecution. Still others, including Rita Levi-Montalcini, Herbert Hauptman, Robert Furchgott, Arthur Kornberg, and Jerome...

with cerebrospinal fluid. Earlier findings by Viktor Hamburger and Rita Levi-Montalcini in the chick embryo have been confirmed by more recent studies which...