Awards & Winners

Viktor Hamburger

Viktor Hamburger was a German professor and embryologist. Hamburger lectured, among others, Nobel Prize-winning neurologist Rita Levi-Montalcini, who identified nerve growth factor along with Hamburger when they collaborated. Hamburger began to work at Washington University in St. Louis in 1935; he retired from his professor position in 1969 and continued researching until the 1980s.

Awards by Viktor Hamburger

Check all the awards nominated and won by Viktor Hamburger.

1989


National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences
(For his steadfast work that led to the discovery and understanding of normally occurring neuronal death, nerve growth factor, and competitive relationships in the vertebrate nervous system.)