Rita Levi-Montalcini celebrated her 100th birthday this week. The Italian scientist's experiments led to identification of the nerve growth factor (NGF) for which she and American Stanley Cohen shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1986, when Levi-Montalcini was 77.
Levi-Montalcini was barred from her university job in Turin in the 1930s under the Benito Mussolini regime‘s laws that barred non-Aryan Italian citizens from academic and professional careers.
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