Rita+Levi-Montalcini

Levi-Montalcini was a biologist. A biologist is someone who studies living organisms. She Rita Levi-Montalcini helped improve knowledge of human cells. Her research helped improve the cancer. She was forced to keep work secret from Italy's Fascist regime.
 *  Rita Levi-Montalcini **
 * Occupation **

22 April 1909
 * Birth **


 * Death **

30 December 2012 (aged 103)

Rome, Ital y

** Place of Birth **  She was born in Turin, Kingdom of Italy. 

When the death of Giovanna, the Levi-Montalcini's house-keeper accrues, she decides to dedicate her life to medicine. She discovered critical chemical tools that the body uses to direct cell growth and build nerve networks, opening the way for the study of how those processes can go wrong in diseases like cancer.
 * Known for **

Rita Levi-Montalcini experimented with medicine. She found something new called the Nerve Growth Factor or NGF for short. She won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. This happened in 1986.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Science Explained **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">She studied medicine at the University of Turin and did research there on the effects that peripheral tissues have on nerve cell growth. NGF was the first of many cell-growth factors to be found in the bodies of animals. It plays an important role in the growth of nerve cells and fibers in the peripheral nervous system.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Career **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Did you know? **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">She got the prize for physiology or medicine in 1986 for her discovery of a bodily substance that stimulates and influences the growth of nerve cells.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Levi- Montalcini became the fourth woman ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">because of her Jewish ancestry, she was not able to resume her research at Turin until after the war.

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Resources **
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">HowStuffWorks Inc. //How stuff works//. 2013. Web. Sept. 2, 2013
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Rita Levi-Montalcini. In //Encyclopædia Britannica//. Web. Sept. 4,
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Steve Nolan. Mail Online. Associated Newspapers Ltd.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Susan Tyler Hitchcock. //Rita// //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Levi-Montalcini : Nobel Prize winner. //
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Wikimedia Foundation Inc. //Wikipedia//. 2013. Web. Sept. 2, 2013