levi-montalcini

noun

1. Rita,1909–2012, U.S. neurologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize 1986.

1. Italian-American developmental biologist. She shared a 1986 Nobel Prize for the discovery of the nerve growth factor.

1. Italian-born American developmental biologist who discovered the nerve growth factor (NGF), a bodily substance that stimulates the growth of nerve cells. For this work she shared with American biochemist Stanley Cohen the 1986 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.