Goodbye, Rita. (Music by Gordon Jenkins) – Video

Posted: January 1, 2013 at 5:41 pm

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Goodbye, Rita. (Music by Gordon Jenkins)
Rita Levi-Montalcini (22 April 1909 -- 30 December 2012), Knight Grand Cross, 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 (NGF). From 2001 until her death she also served in the Italian Senate as a Senator for Life. Rita Levi-Montalcini had been the oldest living Nobel laureate and the first ever to reach a 100th birthday. On 22 April 2009, she was feted with a 100th birthday party at Rome #39;s city hall. Born on 22 April 1909 in Turin to an Italian Jewish family, together with her twin sister Paola she was the youngest of four children. Her parents were Adamo Levi, an electrical engineer and mathematician, and Adele Montalcini, a painter. In her teenage years, she considered becoming a writer and admired Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf. Adamo discouraged his children from attending college as he feared it would disrupt their lives as wives and mothers but he eventually supported Levi-Montalcini #39;s aspirations to become a doctor anyway. Levi-Montalcini decided to attend University of Turin Medical School after seeing a close family friend die of cancer. While attending, she was taught by neurohistologist Giuseppe Levi who introduced her to the developing nervous system. After graduating in 1936, she went to work as Giuseppe Levi #39;s assistant, but her academic career was cut short by Benito Mussolini #39;s 1938 Manifesto of Race and the subsequent introduction ...

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