Rita Levi-Montalcini

ISBN: 9780816061716

出版年: 2009-4

页数: 176

定价: $ 39.55

内容简介

Growing up in early 20th-century Italy, Rita Levi-Montalcini was expected to marry, not pursue an education. After earning an M.D., she defied a Fascist Italian government to study the body's nervous system and discovered the nerve growth factor, a protein that controls the growth of neurons and is required for their survival. She earned a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986 for her work.