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Italian Nobel Prize Winners
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet. This prize is awarded annually in Stockholm, Sweden during a formal ceremony on December 10. Since 1901 there have been seven winners of Italian descent of this prestigious award. The recipient is listed below with the year they won the award and the reason they were chosen. In some instances the award was shared and in those cases the other recipients are listed.
| Name | Year | Contribution |
| Camillo Golgi | 1906 | "in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system" |
| Golgi shared this award with Santiago Ramón y Cajal. | ||
| * Daniel Bovet | 1957 | "for his discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the action of certain body substances, and especially their action on the vascular system and the skeletal muscles" |
| Salvador E. Luria | 1969 | "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses" |
| Luria shared this award with Max Delbrück and Alfred D. Hershey. | ||
| Renato Dulbecco | 1975 | "for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell" |
| Dulbecco shared this award with David Baltimore and Howard Martin Temin. | ||
| Rita Levi-Montalcini | 1986 | "for their discoveries of growth factors" |
| Levi-Montalcini shared this award with Stanley Cohen. | ||
| Louis J. Ignarro | 1998 | "for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular syste" |
| Louis J. Ignarro shared this award with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad. | ||
| Mario R. Capecchi | 2007 | "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells" |
| Mario R. Capecchi shared this award with Sir Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies. | ||
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| Literature | Peace | Economics |
* Daniel Bovet is listed as a Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist. He is also included in the Premi Nobel italiani exhibition.
In the event that I excluded a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine who is of Italian descent please send me an email and I will get them added to this impressive list of winners.
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