Giuseppe Montalenti

Giuseppe Montalenti (13 December 1904 - 2 July 1990) was an Italian geneticist and zoologist. He was a genetics professor at the University of Naples (since 1940) and at the Sapienza University of Rome (since 1963). He was elected a member of Accademia dei Lincei.

Biography Montalenti was born in Asti. His father was a jurist and a magistrate, and his grandfather was a naturalist and an entomologist.

After high school, Giuseppe Montalenti entered the University of Turin, but in 1923, his father was promoted and Giuseppe moved with him to Rome, entering Sapienza University of Rome. He graduated at 1926.

Works Main works: Lazzaro Spallanzani (1928); Elementi di genetica (1939); Problemi di biologia della riproduzione (1945); Compendio di embriologia (1945); L'evoluzione (1958); Storia della biologia e della medicina (1962); Introduzione alla genetica (1971); Charles Darwin (1982); Introduzione alla biologia (1983).