This document lists 15 Italian Nobel Prize winners in various fields such as neuroanatomy, physics, chemistry, medicine, and physiology. It provides each winner's name, year of award, lifespan, field of work, and motivation for receiving the Nobel Prize, summarizing their major contributions and discoveries. The winners span from 1906 to 2007 and made groundbreaking discoveries relating to the nervous system, wireless telegraphy, nuclear reactions, pharmacology, antimatter, polymers, genetics of viruses and cells, weak force, growth factors, astrophysics, and genetic modifications in mice.

1. Italian NOBEL Prize winners

2. CAMILLO GOLGI
1906
1843 -1926
Field:
neuroanatomy,
neurophysiology
Prize
motivation:
"in recognition
of his work on
the structure
of the nervous
system"

3. GUGLIELMO MARCONI
1909
1874 -1937
Field:
applied electromagnetism,
electromagnetism
Prize motivation:
"in recognition of his
contributions to the
development of wireless
telegraphy"

4. ENRICO FERMI
1938
Prize motivation:
"for his
demonstrations of
the existence of new
radioactive
elements produced
by neutron
irradiation, and for
his related
discovery of nuclear
reactions brought
about by slow
neutrons"
Field:
nuclear physics
1901 -1954

5. DANIEL BOVET
1957
1907 -1992
Prize
motivation:
"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"
Field:
pharmacology

6. EMILIO SEGRE’
1959 Prize
motivation:
"for his
discovery of the
antiproton“
Field:
particle physics
1905 -1989

7. GIULIO NATTA
1963
Prize
motivation:
"for their
discoveries in
the field of the
chemistry and
technology of
high polymers“
Field:
industrial
chemistry,
polymer
chemistry
19 03 - 1979

8. SALVADOR E. LURIA
1969
Prize motivation:
"for his discoveries
concerning the
replication
mechanism and the
genetic structure of
viruses“
Field:
genetics, virology
1912- 1991

9. RENATO DULBECCO
1975
Prize motivation:
"for his discoveries
concerning the interaction
between tumour viruses
and the genetic material of
the cell“
Field:
genetics,
medical oncology,
virology
1914-2012

10. CARLO RUBBIA 1984
Prize motivation:
“for his decisive
contributions to the large
project, which led to the
discovery of the field
particles W and Z,
communicators of weak
interaction“
Field:
experimental particle
physics
1934 - Living

11. RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI 1986
1909 - 2012
Prize motivation:
"for her discoveries of
growth factors“
Field:
biochemistry,
cell physiology

12. RICCARDO GIACCONI
2002
1931 - living
Prize
motivation:
"for
pioneering
contributions
to
astrophysics,
which have
led to the
discovery of
cosmic X-ray
sources“
Field:
astrophysics

13. MARIO R. CAPECCHI
2007
1937 – living
Field:
genetics
Prize
motivation:
"for his
discoveries of
principles for
introducing
specific gene
modifications
in mice by the
use of
embryonic
stem cells"