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He was one of the best-known contemporary Italian architects and a professor at the University of Turin. She had two sisters: Anna, five years older than Rita, and Paola, her twin sister, a popular artist who died on 29 September 2000, age 91. In 2003, she filed a libel suit for defamation against Beppe Grillo.
Feb 6, 2020 · Rita Levi-Montalcini was born in Turin, Italy, on April 22, 1909. She was the youngest of four children from a well-to-do Italian Jewish family led by Adamo Levi, an electrical engineer, and Adele Montalcini, a painter.
Jul 20, 1998 · Rita Levi-Montalcini (born April 22, 1909, Turin, Italy—died December 30, 2012, Rome) was an Italian American neurologist who, with biochemist Stanley Cohen, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1986 for her discovery of a bodily substance that stimulates and influences the growth of nerve cells.
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On Wednesday 22 April 2009, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Prize laureate and discoverer of the first neural growth factor, turned 100 years old. Her scientific work drastically changed basic...
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Rita Levi-Montalcini was one of the greatest scientific minds of the 20th century. She fought through deeply entrenched sexism and the staggering anti-Semitism of WWII to do the thing she loved most. The accolades and awards were never the goal.
Apr 22, 2010 · Senator for Life, Nobel Laureate and Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI Rita Levi-Montalcini is 101 years old today. She is the oldest living Nobel laureate. Born in Turin to a Sephardic Jewish family, Rita Levi-Montalcini decided early on that she wanted to go to medical school.
Apr 1, 2009 · Levi-Montalcini didn't consider herself too old then, when she was 97 years old, and she certainly doesn't now when, on 22 April, she will become the first Nobel laureate to reach the age...
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