Rita Levi-Montalcini - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1986
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Rita Levi-Montalcini

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1986
for their discoveries of growth factors
Together with: Stanley Cohen
Citizenship
Kingdom of ItalyKingdom of ItalyUnited StatesUnited StatesItalyItaly
Languages
English, Italian
date of birth
4/22/1909
place of birth
Turin
date of death
12/30/2012
place of death
Rome
Lived
103 years
occupation
  • neurobiologist
  • biochemist
  • physician
  • docent
  • neuroscientist
  • neurologist
  • politician
  • scientist
field of work
  • neurobiology
educated at
  • University of Turin
employer
  • Washington University in St. Louis
position held
  • Italian senator for life
    • start time: 8/1/2001
    • end time: 12/30/2012
work location
  • United States
member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 1995
  • European Molecular Biology Organization
    • start time: 1974
  • Accademia delle Arti del Disegno
    • start time: 1981
  • French Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 4/17/1989
  • Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium
    • start time: 5/19/1979
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1968
  • Academy of Sciences of Turin
    • start time: 5/21/2008
  • Academia Europaea
    • start time: 1989
  • The World Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1992
  • International Academy of the History of Science
    • start time: 9/10/1993
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 3/21/1977
    • end time: 12/6/1990
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 12/6/1990
  • Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL
    • start time: 1980
  • National Bioethics Committee of Italy
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1966
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1986
  • European Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 2002
  • Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia
    • start time: November 2005
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 6/24/1974
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