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Giuseppe Levi

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Giuseppe Levi · Science & Medicine

What

Histologist and pioneer of tissue culture who mentored three future Nobel laureates.

When

1872, Trieste, Austria-Hungary — 1965, Turin, Italy

Where

Italy

Biography

Giuseppe Levi is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Histologist and pioneer of tissue culture who mentored three future Nobel laureates.

How & why

Levi was an Italian histologist and pioneer of tissue culture and the study of nerve cells, whose Turin laboratory trained three future Nobel laureates: Rita Levi-Montalcini, Salvador Luria and Renato Dulbecco. He was born into a Jewish family in Trieste.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology

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Histologist and pioneer of tissue culture who mentored three future Nobel laureates.

1872

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology