# Rita Levi-Montalcini

> She found the molecule that tells nerves how to grow - a discovery that cracked open how the nervous system builds itself and earned her the Nobel Prize in 1986.

*Italian neurologist (1909-2012)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/rita-levi-montalcini

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Doctor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Doctors
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1909-04-22
- **Died:** 2012-12-30
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Rita Levi-Montalcini was born Rita Levi on 22 April 1909 in Italy. Working alongside Stanley Cohen, she identified nerve growth factor (NGF), the protein that guides nerve cell development, and shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for it. In 2001, she was appointed senator for life in the Italian Senate, a recognition of her scientific contributions to the nation. On 22 April 2009, she became the first Nobel laureate ever to turn 100, celebrated with a party at Rome's City Hall. She died on 30 December 2012.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 70.2 / 100
- **Momentum:** 4.3 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 24.8 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1390338/ (@nm1390338)

## Topics
#Doctors, #Politician, #Politics, #Medicine, #Science, #United States, #Americas, #20th Century

## Timeline
- **2012** - Died
- **2008** - Honorary Doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense
- **1995** - Foreign Member of the Royal Society
- **1990** - Gold medal of the Spanish National Research Council
- **1987** - Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- **1986** - Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- **1985** - Ralph W. Gerard Prize
- **1983** - Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
- **1969** - Feltrinelli Prize
- **1909** - Born

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