Friday, December 6, 2002 - Rita Levi-Montalcini, 93, one of three surviving Nobel Prize-winning women, spent nearly 30 years at Washington University, researching with zoologist Viktor Hamburger, studying the growth of nerve tissue in chick embryos. She won the Nobel in 1986.
She had a dual citizenship in Italy and the US, and is a native of Turin. Of Jewish ancestry, she survived the threat of death when the Germans occupied Italy.
Levi-Montalcini was in St. Louis Friday visiting with old friends and colleagues.
PHOTO BY JERRY NAUNHEIM JR./POST-DISPATCH