satinydean:ＨＩＳＴＯＲＹ ＭＥＭＥ | （１／９） ＰＥＯＰＬＥ － ＲＩＴＡ ＬＥＶＩ－ＭＯＮＴＡＬＣＩＮＩRita Levi-Montalcini (22 April 1909 –
satinydean:ＨＩＳＴＯＲＹ ＭＥＭＥ | （１／９） ＰＥＯＰＬＥ － ＲＩＴＡ ＬＥＶＩ－ＭＯＮＴＡＬＣＩＮＩRita Levi-Montalcini (22 April 1909 – 30 December 2012) was an Italian neurologist who, together with colleague Stanley Cohen, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of nerve growth factor. Also, from 2001, until her death, she served in the Italian Senate as a Senator for Life.Levi-Montalcini lost her assistant position in the anatomy department after a 1938 law was passed, barring Jews from university positions. During World War II, Levi-Montalcini would conduct experiments from a home laboratory, studying the growth of nerve fibers in chicken embryos, which laid the groundwork for much of her later research.In 1987, she received the National Medal of Science, the highest American scientific honor.In 1991, she received the Laurea Honoris Causa in Medicine from the University of Trieste, Italy. On that occasion, she expressed her desire to formulate a Carta of Human Duties as necessary counterpart of the too much neglected Declaration of Human Rights. The vision of Rita Levi-Montalcini came true with the issuing of the Trieste Declaration of Human Duties and the foundation in 1993 of the International Council of Human Duties, ICHD, at the University of Trieste.Rita Levi-Montalcini died in her home in Rome on 30 December 2012 at the age of 103. -- source link