Giuseppe Levi
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Giuseppe Levi | |
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.jpg) Levi c. 1900s | |
| Born | 14 October 1872 Imperial Free City of Trieste, Austrian Littoral, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 3 February 1965 (aged 92) Turin, Piedmont, Italy |
| Occupation | Professor of human anatomy |
| Known for | Pioneer of in vitro studies on cultured cells |
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Lidia Tanzi
(m. 1901; died 1957) |
| Children | 5, including Natalia |
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Giuseppe Levi (14 October 1872 – 3 February 1965) was an Italian anatomist and histologist, professor of human anatomy (since 1916) at the universities of Sassari, Palermo and Turin. He was a pioneer of in vitro studies of cultured cells, and contributed to the study of the nervous system, especially on the plasticity of sensory ganglion cells.[1] While in Turin, Levi tutored three students who later won the Nobel Prize: Salvador Luria, Renato Dulbecco and Rita Levi-Montalcini.[1]
He was admitted as a national member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in 1926.[2] In 1931 he subscribed to the oath of allegiance to the Fascist regime imposed to university professors.[citation needed]
Born in Trieste to Jewish parents Michele Levi and Emma Perugia,[3] 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),[4][2] who described her father's personality in the successful Italian book Lessico famigliare (1963).
