Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012)
Autor(a) de In Praise of Imperfection: My Life and Work
About the Author
The American biologist Rita Levi-Montalcini was born in Turin, Italy, and earned her M.D. from the University of Turin in 1936. After she became a clinical neurobiologist, Italy's anti-Jewish laws forced her to work in Belgium. After Germany occupied northern Italy in World War II, she went into mostrar mais hiding in Florence and then served as physician to the Allied invaders. When the war ended, Levi-Montalcini joined Viktor Hamburger, a pioneer in experimental embryology and a German expatriate who was chair of the department of zoology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Together they began experimental research on the regulatory mechanisms controlling motor and sensory nerve cells. This research launched Levi-Montalcini's own pioneering work in the mechanisms of neurogenesis. During the early 1950s, Levi-Montalcini visited the Institute of Biophysics in Rio de Janeiro; its innovative in vitro culture unit helped shape the course of her future research. Soon after returning to Washington University, she was joined by the biochemist Stanley Cohen, who collaborated with her from 1953 to 1959 on research into the nerve growth factor (NFG), a natural substance that stimulates the growth of nerve cells and fibers, and its chemical and biological properties. Using immunological methods, they discovered the determining role of NFG in cell differentiation and survival. For this pioneering work, they later shared the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine in 1986. By 1961 Levi-Montalcini was dividing her research career between Washington University and her own Center of Neurobiology in Rome, a research center supported by the Italian government. Later renamed the Laboratory of Cell Biology, it has departments of cell biology, immunology, and physiological genetics. Thanks to the efforts of Levi-Montalcini, by the late 1980s and 1990s, NFG research had become a major area of interest for scientists engaged in genes coding, recombinant DNA technology, and genetic engineering. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Rita Levi-Montalcini
Le tue antenate. Donne pioniere nella società e nella scienza dall'antichità ai giorni nostri (2008) 9 exemplares
Tiempo de cambios.: Pensar y vivir a favor de la supervivencia de la especie humana. (ATALAYA) (Spanish Edition) (2005) 3 exemplares
The saga of the nerve growth factor preliminary studies, discovery, further development (1997) 3 exemplares
Lungo le vie della conoscenza. Un viaggio per sentieri inesplorati con Rita Levi-Montalcini (2005) 1 exemplar
Las pioneras: Las mujeres que cambiaron la sociedad y la ciencia desde la Antigüedad... (Drakontos) (Spanish Edition) (2011) 1 exemplar
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Levi-Montalcini, Rita
- Data de nascimento
- 1909-04-22
- Data de falecimento
- 2012-12-30
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Italy (birth)
USA (dual) - Local de nascimento
- Turin, Italy
- Local de falecimento
- Rome, Italy
- Locais de residência
- Florence, Italy
St. Louis, Missouri, USA - Educação
- University of Turin
- Ocupações
- Neurologist
physician
researcher
professor - Organizações
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Premi Nobel de Medicina (1986)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Rita Levi-Montalcini was born in Turin. She graduated from the University of Turin School of Medicine in 1936, and enrolled in a three-year specialization course in neurology and psychiatry. However, the Fascist government barred Jews from higher education and academia. Dr. Levi-Montalcini's family fled Turin during World War II and survived in the countryside and in Florence. She set up a small laboratory in a farmhouse to carry on her research. At the end of the war, she served as a doctor for refugees before resuming her studies. In 1947, she was invited to join a colleague for research work at Washington University in St. Louis. In 1962 she established a research unit in Rome, dividing her time between the two labs. In 1986,she and Stanley Cohen shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine as well as the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for their discovery of nerve growth factor. She published her autobiography, In Praise of Imperfection: My Life and Work, in 1988.
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- Obras
- 31
- Membros
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- Popularidade
- #82,782
- Avaliação
- 3.2
- Críticas
- 4
- ISBN
- 72
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Poi, certo, è stata importante nella vita di tuttз per essere stata una della maggiori scienziate del secolo scorso e per aver vinto il Nobel per la medicina insieme a Stanley Cohen per aver scoperto il Nerve Growth Factor, ma questo lo leggerete ovunque. La RAI le ha anche dedicato un film di recente – me lo sono perso, qualcunǝ l’ha visto? Merita?
Un altro motivo di affetto per questo libro è – come da titolo – l’elogio dell’imperfezione. Levi-Montalcini ci dice che l’imperfezione della nostra specie ha fatto sì che ci fosse la possibilità di cambiamento ed evoluzione. Non solo in meglio, purtroppo: Levi-Montalcini sa bene che nello stesso secolo c’è stato l’abisso di Hitler e lo splendore di Einstein.
Sapete quali sono gli esseri perfetti? Gli invertebrati, soprattutto gli insetti: i loro piccoli cervelli erano già così perfettamente adattati al loro ambiente che così sono rimasti. In un mondo dove la perfezione pare lo standard da raggiungere è bene ricordarsi che non è degli esseri umani, ma dei moscerini della frutta. Rimette le cose in prospettiva.… (mais)