Rita Levi-Montalcini
1909 – 2012 · Italy · Medicine, Biology
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1986
Discovered nerve growth factor in a bedroom lab under fascist persecution.
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- Santiago Ramón y Cajal
1852 – 1934 · Medicine, Biology
Levi-Montalcini began in Cajal's tradition of silver-stained developmental neuroanatomy.
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