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Rita Levi-Montalcini
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I have lost a bit of my sight, much of my hearing. At conferences, I can't see the presentations and can't hear well. But I think more now than when I when I was twenty.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Italian neurologist (1909–2012)
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Lived 1909–2012, aged 103United States
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She found the molecule that tells nerves how to grow — a discovery that cracked open how the nervous system builds itself and earned her the Nobel Prize in 1986.
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Rita Levi-Montalcini was born Rita Levi on 22 April 1909 in Italy. Working alongside Stanley Cohen, she identified nerve growth factor (NGF), the protein that guides nerve cell development, and shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for it. In 2001, she was appointed senator for life in the Italian Senate, a recognition of her scientific contributions to the nation. On 22 April 2009, she became the first Nobel laureate ever to turn 100, celebrated with a party at Rome's City Hall. She died on 30 December 2012.
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Man is ruined by servility, conformism, obsequiousness, rather than aggressiveness, which is much more common in the environment than within ourselves.
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In life one should never give in, surrender oneself to mediocrity, but rather move out of that grey area where everything is habit and passive resignation.
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The women who changed the world never needed to show anything other than their own intelligence.
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I never had any hesitation or regrets in this sense. My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.
— Of the fact that she never married; quoted in Associated Press obituary.
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