Levi, Giuseppe, 1872-1965

LC control no.	n 87150918
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Levi, Giuseppe, 1872-1965 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Levi, Giuseppe, b. 1872
Birth date	1872-10-14
Death date	1965-02-03
Place of birth	Trieste (Italy)
Place of death	Turin (Italy)
Field of activity	Human anatomy Histology Nervous system Neurobiology Cytology
Affiliation	Università degli studi di Sassari Università di Palermo Università di Torino
Profession or occupation	University and college faculty members
Found in	LCCN 47-17597: His Trattato di istologica, 1946 (hdg.: Levi, Giuseppe, 1872- ) LC data base, 11-17-87 (hdg.: Levi, Giuseppe, 1872- ; variant: Giuseppe Levi) Il maestro dei nobel, 2018: t.p. (Giuseppe Levi) p. 27 (d. February 3, 1965 in Turin, Italy) Bentivoglio, Marina, Alessandro Vercelli, Guido Filogamo, Giuseppe Levi: mentor of three Nobel laureates, Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 6 Dec;15(4):358-68. doi: 10.1080/09647040600888974 abstract (Giuseppe Levi (1872-1965), Professor of Anatomy at the University of Turin, had broad research interests and was a pioneer of in vitro studies on cultured cells. He provided a number of contributions on the nervous system, especially on the plasticity of sensory ganglion cells. An influential and magnetic teacher and mentor, he gathered around him a large group of brilliant students. He has the peculiar primate to count among his students three Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine: Salvador Luria, Renato Dulbecco, and Rita Levi-Montalcini. For all three of them, the internship in Levi's laboratory provided an exceptional initial stimulus. They remained in close contact with each other and with Levi even after the 1940s when they migrated to the United States for political and racial reasons, engaging in different fields of research. Rita Levi-Montalcini, who was awarded the Nobel Prize (1986) for the discovery of Nerve Growth Factor, was stimulated and assisted in her work by Giuseppe Levi during the difficult years of World War II. With Giuseppe Levi, she pursued early studies on the relationships between neural centers and their peripheral target of innervation, and she has witnessed in her writings the enthusiasm of her mentor.) <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16997763/> Wikipedia, viewed December 28, 2021 Giuseppe Levi (October 14, 1872-February 3, 1965) was an Italian anatomist and histologist, professor of human anatomy (since 1916) at the universities of Sassari, Palermo and Turin. He was born on October 14, 1872, in Trieste to Jewish parents, Michele Levi and Emma Perugia. He was married to Lidia Tanzi and had five children: Gino, Mario, Alberto, Paola (who became the wife of Adriano Olivetti), and writer Natalia Ginzburg (wife of Leone Ginzburg and mother of Carlo Ginzburg), who described her father's personality in the successful Italian book Lessico famigliare (1963). Levi was a pioneer of in vitro studies of cultured cells. He contributed to the study of the nervous system, especially on the plasticity of sensory ganglion cells.)