1292) Giuseppe Levi

Giuseppe Levi (1872 – 1965). Italian anatomist and histologist, professor of human anatomy (since 1916) at the universities of Sassari, Palermo and Turin. He was born on in Trieste to Jewish parents and was married to Lidia Tanzi. They 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. While in Turin, he tutored three students who later won the Nobel prize: Salvador Luria, Renato Dulbecco and Rita Levi-Montalcini.
He was admitted as a national member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in 1926. In 1931 he subscribed to the oath of allegiance to the Fascist regime imposed to University professors.

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- "His thick red hair and bushy eyebrows earned him the nickname Levipom, a combination of his name and a syllable from the Italian word for tomato, pomodoro."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "Levi was still as vigorous and red-haired as ever in spite of being in his 80s."  https://books.google.it/books…

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