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Rita Levi-Montalcini

January 5, 2013 admin

economist-logoTHE advantage of living to a very great age is that you tend to have the last word. Rita Levi-Montalcini saw her scientific discoveries sniffed at throughout the 1950s and 1960s, only to win the Nobel prize for physiology in 1986…

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