Person Levi-Montalcini; Rita (1909 - 2012) Levi-Montalcini Rita Rita Levi- Montalcini 1909 - 2012 Italian Female Turin, Italy 22/04/1909 19090422 30/12/2012 20121230

Neurobiologist Education: At age of 20 persuaded her father to be allowed to try for university. Enrolled at the medical school in Turin, where she studied under the histologist Giuseppe Levi. Graduated with a summa cum laude degree in Medicine and Surgery in 1936 Career: Left Italy for Belgium in 1936 working as a guest of a neurological institute in Brussels. Returned to Turin in 1940, but left in 1941 to work in a cottage in Piemonte, then Florence until 1944 when city liberated in Auagust 1944. Worked as volunteer physician. Returned to Turin after war and resumed academic career at the university. Moved to Washington University, St Louis, at invitation of Viktor Hamburger where he wa a professor in 1947. Became Associate Professor 1956, full Professor on Neurobiology in 1958, held till her retirement in 1977. Established a research unit in Rome in 1962. Director of the Institute of Cell Biology of the Italian Council of Research, 1969-1978. President of the Institute of the Italian Encyclopaedia 1993-1998. With her twin sister created the Levi-Mantalcini Foundation in 1992, in memory of her father, to assist young people in the difficult choices in their fields of study. Medals and prizes: Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) 1986 Twin sister Paola, youngest of four children; father Adam Levi an electrical engineer and mathematician, mother Adele Montalcini, a talented painter. Foreign Member 09/03/1995 85 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Anglo American Cataloguing Rules (second edition) rules for double barrelled and compound surnames 22 Apr 1909 - 30 December 2012 NA4722 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes aec45448-f946-4e7d-88b9-b7b5bf5581cf