Rita Levi-Montalcini: the neurologist who challenged fascism

Rita Levi-Montalcini was a researcher in the field of neuroscience, Italian and Jewish in origin, who discovered the nerve growth factor and rightfully earned the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, alongside her collaborator Stanley Cohen. She was persecuted by the fascist dictatorship of B...

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Main Authors: Léo Coutinho, Hélio A. Ghizoni Teive
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Revinter Publicações 2023-01-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0043-1761426
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