Siegen
Siegen city (1994 pop. 111,845), North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, on the Sieg River. Iron ore is mined nearby, and the city has iron foundries. Other manufactures include leather goods and machinery. Siegen was the residence of the princes of Nassau-Siegen from 1606 to 1743. The city was severely damaged in World War II. Noteworthy buildings include two castles and the Nikolaikirche, a 13th-century church. Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens was born (1577) in Siegen.
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Rita Levi-Montalcini - Nobel Prize for Work in Neurology
Magazine article from: Mayo Clinic Proceedings; 12/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...physiology was shared by Rita Levi-Montalcini and Stanley Cohen...Alzheimer disease. Levi-Montalcini was born on April...electrical engineer. Rita added her mother's name (Montalcini) to her surname (Levi) when she began...
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Jewish lives: Rita Levi-Montalcini
Magazine article from: Judaism; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...United States. Rita Levi-Montalcini was born in...Jews. Adele Montalcini met Adamo Levi in 1941...Gino, Nina, Rita, and Paola...patronymic "Levi," borne...history. "Montalcini" is probably...Italy where Rita's maternal...
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Collaborators Cohen, Levi-Montalcini win medical Nobel. (Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini)
Magazine article from: Science News; 10/18/1986; ; 700+ words
; Collaborators Cohen, Levi-Montalcini win medical Nobel this year...Physiology or Medicine goes to Rita Levi-Montalcini and Stanley Cohen, the Karolinska...and organ growth." Cohen and Levi-Montalcini will share the prize's approximately...
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Jewish Lives: Rita Levi-Montalcini.
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...United States. Rita Levi-Montalcini was born in...Jews. Adele Montalcini met Adamo Levi in 1901...Gino, Nina, Rita, and Paola...patronymic "Levi," borne...history. "Montalcini" is probably...Italy where Rita's maternal...
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Oldest living Nobel laureate arrives today on solidarity visit. 98-year-old Italian neurologist Rita Levi-Montalcini triumphed over Mussolinis anti-Jewish edicts
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 3/4/2008; ; 606 words
; ...solidarity visit. 98-year-old Italian neurologist Rita Levi-Montalcini triumphed over Mussolinis anti-Jewish edicts...News Page: 06 Tuesday, March 4, 2008 -- Prof. Rita Levi-Montalcini, at 98 the oldest living Nobel Prize laureate...
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Queen of Italy in a lab coat: Nobel Prize-winning scientist revisits her research home.(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 1/21/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Italy during World War II. Rita Levi-Montalcini is Jewish and Italian...Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Rita Levi-Montalcini gets around, and last month...is one who delivers. And Rita delivered." Levi-Montalcini never married; her last...
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 "St. Louis Post-Dispatch (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)")
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Queen of Italy in a lab coat: Nobel Prize-winning scientist revisits her research home.
Newspaper article from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 1/16/2003; 700+ words
; ...Italy during World War II. Rita Levi-Montalcini is Jewish and Italian...Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Rita Levi-Montalcini gets around, and last month...is one who delivers. And Rita delivered." Levi-Montalcini never married; her last...
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BREAKING BARRIERS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/17/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...autobiography of Nobel prize winning neurobiologist Rita Levi- Montalcini ("In Praise of Imperfection, My Life and Work...toward women that she sought energetically to undo. Rita Levi-Montalcini's recollections of her early family life in Turin...
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Is this the secret of eternal life?
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/25/2009; ; 700+ words
; Rita Levi-Montalcini won a Nobel Prize for discovering nerve growth factor. Now, at...magic elixir or other. The longevity of the Italian scientist Rita Levi- Montalcini, who this week became the first Nobel Prize-winner to reach...
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KEY TO GROWTH TWO WIN NOBEL FOR CELL WORK.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 10/14/1986; 700+ words
; ...prize was awarded jointly to Rita Levi-Montalcini, director of the cellular biology...cash stipend of $290,000. Levi-Montalcini, 77, and Cohen, 63, worked...studying something else." Levi-Montalcini, who holds dual American and...
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Rita Levi-Montalcini
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Rita Levi-Montalcini An Italian and American biologist, Rita Levi-Montalcini (born 1909) discovered the nerve...regulation of homeostatic processes. Rita Levi-Montalcini was born in Turin, Italy, on...
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Levi-Montalcini, Rita
Book article from: Animal Sciences
Levi-Montalcini, Rita Italian-American neurologist 1909- Rita Levi-Montalcini, born in Turin, Italy, is a prominent neurologist who discovered...
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The 1980s: Medicine and Health: Awards
Book article from: American Decades
...Cohen (United States) and developmental biologist Rita Levi-Montalcini (United States and Italy) for their discovery...the treatment of cardiovascular disease. 1986Rita Levi-Montalcini and Stanley Cohen for their discoveries of natural...
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Stanley Cohen
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...his most important work at Washington Univ. with Rita Levi-Montalcini in the 1950s. Studying mouse tumors implanted in...growth factors found in animals. For this discovery Levi-Montalcini and Cohen were awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology...
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