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Rita Levi-Montalcini, "The Nerve Growth Factor 35 Years Later,"
This year's summation of research begins with a tribute to and interview with
Rita Levi-Montalcini, who turned 100 in April 2009; she discovered nerve growth factor, which helped establish the concept of trophic support for cell growth and differentiation.
Rita Levi-Montalcini, the 1986 Nobel Laureate in medicine.
Rita Levi-Montalcini was born in 1909, and has just turned 90.
It would be a tragedy to exclude women from all this fun." [38] And indeed, for Rita Levi-Montalcini, science is pure joy, as much at eighty-five as at twenty.
Rita Levi-Montalcini, who later won the Nobel Prize for describing proteins that help nerve cells grow and stay healthy.
The history of the nine women Laureates - Gerty Cori, Marie Curie, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Gertrude Elion, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Irene Joliot Curie,
Rita Levi-Montalcini, Barbara McClintock, Rosalyn Yalow - and a few of their sisters whose genius was not recognized, including Mileva Einstein Maric, Lise Meitner and Rosalind Franklin - provides "a microcosm of the history of gender politics in science this century."
this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to
Rita Levi-Montalcini and Stanley Cohen, the Karolinska Institute announced this week.
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Rita Levi-Montalcini put it more bluntly in her autobiography, where she refers to "the law of disregarding negative information." According to her, "Facts that fit into a preconceived hypothesis attract attention, are singled out, and remembered.
One of the most notable observations was by
Rita Levi-Montalcini, who did much of her microscopy work on brain neurons while in the attic of a private home during World War II.