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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI

Title: Director, Lab of Cell Biology
Affiliation:   Italian National Research Council
    Rome, Italy
Gender:   Female
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Award Discipline:   Biological Sciences
Award Year:   1987
Citation:   "For a major breakthrough in neurobiology by her discovery of the Nerve Growth Factor and its effect on the growth of the sympathetic nervous system which set the stage for worldwide studies of the molecules involved in normal and malignant growth."
    Presented by President Reagan at a White House Ceremony on June 25, 1987.
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Nobel Laureate:   Physiology or Medicine, 1986

 

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