Rita Levi-Montalcini
By: Susan Tyler Hitchcock.
Series: Women in medicine
Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Levi-Montalcini, Rita.; Neurologists -- Biography.; Developmental neurobiology.; Nerve growth factor.; Nobel Prizes.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: "Chronology": p. 106-110.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-117) and index.
Table of contents: title: Science in hiding; title: Growing up in Turin, 1909-1929; title: A budding scientist, 1930-1934; title: Suppressed science in a fascist regime, 1935-1945; title: Concept out of chaos: early findings, 1945-1951; title: Nerve growth factor gets a name and a reputation, 1952-1959; title: NGF comes of age: investigations around the world, 1960-1985; title: The Nobel Prize and beyond, 1986-.