Article ID: CBB948356892

Giuseppe Levi e Rita Levi-Montalcini: Il lungo cammino di una “biologia dinamica”, dall’embriologia alle moderne neuroscienze (2022)

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A recent volume, edited by Marco Piccolino and entitled "Rita Levi Montalcini e il suo Maestro, una grande avventura nelle neuroscienze alla scuola di Giuseppe Levi," is the stimulus for situating in a historical perspective the formidable achievements in the twentieth century neurosciences of Rita Levi-Montalcini. The volume points to the importance for Levi-Montalcini of the technical and theoretical background acquired during the period spent in the Turin Anatomical Institute directed by Giuseppe Levi, a prominent figure of the twentieth century biology. In opposition to a static conception of the morphological research, Levi promoted a dynamic and functional approach based on the modern technologies. This attitude, which had a long tradition in the Italian biomedical research, dating up to the epoch of Marcello Malpighi, was revived by Levi and by his master Giulio Chiarugi, and represented Rita’s atout in her path of discovery of the Nerve Growth Factor, one of the main breakthroughs in the history of the modern neurosciences.

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Authors & Contributors
Piccolino, Marco
Galperin, Charles
Levi-Montalcini, Rita
Cavaglion, Alberto
Gemelli, Giuliana
Gilbert, Scott F.
Journals
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Publishers
Edizioni ETS
Brepols
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Science and politics
Biology
Jews
Biographical studies
Fascism
Medicine
People
Levi, Giuseppe
Levi-Montalcini, Rita
Kühn, Alfred
Shorey, Marian Lydia
Dalcq, Albert
Ephrussi, Boris
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
Italy
United States
Turin (Italy)
Institutions
University of Chicago
Rockefeller Foundation
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