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Rita Levi-Montalcini was an Italian neurologist and Nobel laureate who made groundbreaking discoveries in the field of nerve growth. She was born on April 22, 1909 in Turin, Italy, to a Jewish family. She studied medicine at the University of Turin and graduated in 1936. Levi-Montalcini was forced to flee Italy during World War II due to her Jewish heritage. She eventually settled in the United States, where she continued her research at Washington University in St. Louis. In 1952, she discovered the nerve growth factor, which is essential for the development and maintenance of the nervous system. In 1986, Levi-Montalcini was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discoveries. She was the first Italian woman to receive the Nobel Prize. She was also the oldest Nobel laureate at the time, having received the award at the age of 77. Levi-Montalcini was a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. She was also a member of the Accademia dei Lincei, the oldest scientific academy in the world. Levi-Montalcini died on December 30, 2012, at the age of 103. She was survived by her two sons, Renato and Fausto.

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Age 103 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 22 April, 1909
Birthday 22 April
Birthplace Turin, Italy
Date of death 30 December, 2012
Died Place Rome, Lazio, Italy
Nationality Italy

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1986

In 1986, Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini and her colleague, Dr. Stanley Cohen (b. 1937), won the Nobel Prize in medicine for the discoveries of NGF (nerve growth factor), a substance found in malignant tumors that causes nerve fibers to grow rapidly, and of EGF (epidermal growth factor), which is used in the treatment of severe burns.

1969

Served as Director of the Institute of Cell Biology of the Italian National Council of Research, in Rome, 1969 to 1978.

1946

In the years during and after World War II, Rita worked on chicken embryos, amputating their limbs to discover how this would affect the growing organism's nervous system. Her discoveries led to the description of naturally occurring cell death and of neurotrophic factors in the nervous system. Rita was invited in 1946 to continue her studies at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri.

1944

When the Allied armies forced the Germans to leave Florence, Italy, in August of 1944, Rita was hired as a medical doctor and assigned to a camp of war refugees. She served as nurse and medical doctor, treating typhus and other diseases.

1936

Graduated in 1936 from medical school with a summa cum laude degree in Medicine and Surgery, and enrolled in the three year specialization in neurology and psychiatry. That same year, Benito Mussolini issued laws prohibiting non-Aryan Italian citizens from indulging in academic or professional careers; Rita's family had to seek work that would spare them from persecution. Rita wanted to continue her medical research, so she built a small research unit in her bedroom.

1922

Her Nobel Prize co-winner Stanley Cohen ( Brooklyn, New York, 17 November 1922-5 February 2020 Nashville, Tennessee) was a professor of biochemistry emeritus.

1909

Rita Levi-Montalcini was born on April 22, 1909 in Turin, Italy.

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