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She’s also been a mentor her whole life and says she “encourages the young to have faith in themselves, and in the future.” She hopes she conveys to everyone the message that “ the important thing is to have lived with serenity using the rational left-hand side of one’s brain, and not the right side, the instinctive side, which leads to misery and tragedy.” From the now-retired NIH SciEd Blog: Another installment in our series honoring NIH-Supported Scientists on Their Birthdays

keeps her brain active by working in her lab in the morning and her foundation, which supports education for women in Africa, in the afternoon, and.She told a reporter last year from her office in Rome that the secret of her longevity is, basically, “no food, no husband, and no regrets.” She: Her achievements - against all odds - are still making a difference in the world today. In addition to the Nobel prize, Rita has received many honors and awards - and she’s been serving in the Italian Senate as a Senator for Life since 2001. Her many discoveries in neurology and psychiatry have furthered our understanding of such diverse diseases as cancer, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s. She and Cohen shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for isolating nerve growth factor (NGF) and epidermal growth factor (EGF). Her plans to stay one semester in 1947 stretched into 30 years.Īt Washington University, Rita worked with another faculty member, Stanley Cohen, on the growth of nerve fibers. He invited her to collaborate with him as a research associate. Her work impressed Viktor Hamburger, head of the Zoology Department at Washington University in St. When the Germans invaded Italy in 1943, she moved again, this time to Florence, where she lived under ground – with another makeshift lab – until the end of the war.Īfter the war, she returned to the University of Turin Institute of Anatomy. Soon, heavy bombing in the city forced her to move her lab to her family’s country cottage. Not to be thwarted, Rita set up lab equipment in her bedroom.

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In 1938, Mussolini issued the Manifesto of Race and laws barring Jewish citizens from academic and professional careers. Rita, whose family was Jewish, suffered under Benito Mussolini’s rule during World War II.

Rita enrolled in the local university, and she graduated from medical school in 1936 and went on to pursue basic research in neurology and psychiatry at the University of Turin. Eventually, he came around, thank goodness. Levi, an electrical engineer and mathematician, believed that a career interferes with the duties of a wife and mother. Rita’s first big hurdle was persuading her father to let her go to college. She’s the oldest living Nobel laureate and the only one to reach her 100th – and now her 101st. Levi-Montalcini died on December 30th 2012, at the age of 103.īorn on April 22, 1909, in Turin, Italy, Rita Levi-Montalcini overcame all sorts of challenges on her way to winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986.

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