Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1986
Nobel co-recipients: Stanley Cohen
Name: Luc Montagnier
Birth: 22 April 1909, Turin, Italy
Death: 30 December 2012, Rome, Italy
Residence: Institute of Cell Biology of the C.N.R., Rome, Italy
Award: “for their discoveries of growth factors.”
Portion of Cash: 1/2
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Rita Levi-Montalcini used the Nobel Prize money for her foundation.
“In 1992, Nobel laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini and her sister Paola, established the Levi-Montalcini Non-profit Foundation in memory of their father, Adam Levi. The Foundation’s main goal was the orientation of the youth to work and study. In January 2001, Rita Levi-Montalcini founded the ‘Fondazione Rita Levi-Montalcini Non-profit’. This new body, in continuity with the previous experience, expresses a new sensibility for the lack of education which affects many children, girls and women in the African continent.” – Fondazione Onlus Rita Levi-Montalcini.