Giuseppe Levi
Giuseppe Levi (born October 14, 1872 in Trieste , † February 3, 1965 in Turin ) was an Italian medic.
Life
Giuseppe Levi came from a Jewish family. He was married to Lidia Tanzi and had five children with her: Gino, Mario, Alberto, Paola and Natalia, known as the writer Natalia Ginzburg . The whole family is described in her autobiographical novel Lessico famigliare (Einaudi 1963).
From 1916 Levi was professor of anatomy in Sassari , Palermo and finally in Turin .
In addition to anatomy, he dealt with histology and embryology and was a pioneer of in vitro studies of cell cultures , which he introduced in Italy. While studying the nervous system, he examined the plasticity of ganglion cells in the sensory system.
His students in Turin included the later Nobel Prize winners Salvador Luria , Renato Dulbecco and Rita Levi-Montalcini . In 1934 Hans Elias , who later co-founded stereology , was also his student for a short time.
In 1926 he became a member of the Accademia dei Lincei , in 1933 he was elected to the Leopoldina and the Accademia dei XL , and in 1940 to the National Academy of Sciences . In 1931 he took the oath of allegiance required by the government “to the fascist regime”.
Web links
- Literature by and about Giuseppe Levi in the bibliographic database WorldCat
literature
- Ennio Pannese: LEVI, Giuseppe. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 64: Latilla – Levi Montalcini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2005.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marina Bentivoglio, Alessandro Vercelli, Guido Filogamo: Giuseppe Levi: Mentor of Three Nobel Laureates . In: Journal of the History of the Neurosciences . tape 15 , no. 4 , November 22, 2006, pp. 358 , doi : 10.1080 / 09647040600888974 .
- ^ Sabine Hildebrandt: The Anatomist Hans Elias: A Jewish German in Exile . P. 286
- ^ List of members of the Leopoldina
- ↑ Membership list of the academy ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Click 12 ×, cannot be linked directly
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Levi, Giuseppe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trieste |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 3, 1965 |
| Place of death | Turin |