#Nobel Laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini dies at 103
►http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/12/nobel-laureate-rita-levi-montalcini-dies-at-103.html
Yesterday the world lost one of its most extraordinary scientists when Rita Levi-Montalcini died at her home in Rome at the age of 103.
profil :
►http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090401/full/458564a.html
Born into a well-to-do Jewish family in Turin in 1909, Levi-Montalcini fought hard for her career from the beginning. First there was her domineering father, who didn’t believe in higher education for #women. Then there were Benito Mussolini’s race laws, which ejected Jews from universities and forced her into hiding. And after that there was the scientific establishment, which refused to believe in the existence of nerve growth factor (NGF), the discovery of which eventually won Levi-Montalcini a share of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
