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  1. 1909- . Italian neurologist who discovered
  2. nerve-growth factor, a substance that
  3. controls how many cells make up the adult
  4. nervous system. Nobel prize 1986.
  5. Levi-Montalcini studied at Turin and worked
  6. there until the Fascist anti-Semitic laws
  7. forced her to go into hiding. She continued
  8. research into the nervous systems of chick
  9. embryos. After World War II she moved to the
  10. USA.
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