
Dedicated to honour all who want to reach their goals and spend their life to care for people in need, and whose studies have helped those who suffered.

Rita Levi Montalcini was an Italian neurologist.
She won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986 for her discovery of Nerve Growth Factor (NGF). She shared the Nobel Prize with Stanley Cohen with whom she made the discovery
She was the first Nobel Prize winner to have reached 103 years of age.
The death of her nanny Giovanna, from stomach cancer, drove Rita to study medicine, with the goal of becoming a physician; she enrolled in 1930 at the University of Turin .
She ended her medical career shortly after World War II, when a typhus epidemic hit the refugee camp where she was working with the Red Cross.
She decided to abandon medicine, as she cared too much for suffering patients, and decided to focus on research.
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Dedicated to honour all who want to reach their goals and spend their life to care for people in need, and whose studies have helped those who suffered.

Rita Levi Montalcini was an Italian neurologist.
She won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986 for her discovery of Nerve Growth Factor (NGF). She shared the Nobel Prize with Stanley Cohen with whom she made the discovery
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