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Rita Levi-Montalcini



Levi-Montalcini, Rita (1909– ), U.S. scientist, shared the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine (1986) with Stanley Cohen for their discovery (1952–53) of a natural substance that stimulates the growth of nerve cells.

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