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  1. Happy birthday to Italian #neurobiologist Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012) who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with for her co-discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF)

    Youngest of 4 of a Turin Jewish family, she planned to be a writer but the death of a nanny to cancer inspired her to pursue medicine. Inspired by neurohistologist Levi to study nerves as an undergrad, she stayed on after med school in ‘36 as his 🧵
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    #womenInSTEM #sciart #histsci #histmed