The failed attribution of the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology to Viktor Hamburger for the discovery of Nerve Growth Factor

Domenico Ribatti

doi:10.1016/j.brainresbull.2016.02.019

The failed attribution of the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology to Viktor Hamburger for the discovery of Nerve Growth Factor

Domenico Ribatti

IRCCS Giovanni Paolo II

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Abstract

The announcement in October 1986 that the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was to awarded to Rita Levi Montalcini and Stanley Cohen for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF) and epidermal growth factor, respectively, caused many to wonder why Viktor Hamburger in whose laboratory the initial work was done had not been included in the award. This article try to reconstruct the history of the discovery of NGF with the aim to re-establish a correct dynamic of the events.

Original language	English
Journal	Brain Research Bulletin
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresbull.2016.02.019
Publication status	Accepted/In press - Dec 14 2015

Keywords

History of medicine
Nerve growth factor
Sympathetic neurons
Tumor growth

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Neuroscience(all)

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