Rita Levi-Montalcini

Nobel Prize lecture

The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later

Rita Levi-Montalcini held her Nobel Lecture on 8 December 1986, at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. She was presented by Professor Kerstin Hall of the Karolinska Institutet.

The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later

Rita Levi-Montalcini held her Nobel Lecture on 8 December 1986, at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. She was presented by Professor Kerstin Hall of the Karolinska Institutet.

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From Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1981-1990, Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Jan Lindsten, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1993

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