An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16061 entries, 14144 authors and 1947 subjects. Updated: December 10, 2024

LEVI-MONTALCINI, Rita

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In vitro experiments on the effects of mouse sarcomas 180 and 37 on the spinal and sympathetic ganglia of the chick embryo.

Cancer Res., 14, 49-57, 1954.

Discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF). Order of authorship in the original publication: Levi-Montalcini, Meyer, Hamburger.

In 1986 Levi-Montalcini was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and Stanley Cohen was awarded the other half "for their discoveries of growth factors." 



Subjects: NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine