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Rita Levi-Montalcini
(22 Apr 1909 - )
Italian-American neurologist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1986 (with Stanley Cohen) for her discovery of NGF (nerve growth factor), which stimulates and influences both the normal and abnormal the growth of nerve cells in the body.
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Science Quotes by Rita Levi-Montalcini (2)
After a short period spent in Brussels as a guest of a neurological institute, I returned to Turin on the verge of the invasion of Belgium by the German army, Spring 1940, to join my family. The two alternatives left then to us were either to emigrate to the United States, or to pursue some activity that needed neither support nor connection with the outside Aryan world where we lived. My family chose this second alternative. I then decided to build a small research unit at home and installed it in my bedroom.
— Rita Levi-Montalcini
Autobiography, Nobel Foundation
See also: | Autobiography (42)
As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of bizarre evolutionary gene expression.
— Rita Levi-Montalcini
The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-five Years Later, Nobel Lecture (8 Dec 1986).
