Dr.+Rita+Levi-Montalcini


 * __By Maddyw185 __**
 * __Early life __**
 * Born April 22, 1909
 * She was born into an intellectual, though traditional, family in Turin Italy
 * Her dad would not allow her or her 2 sisters to pursue higher education and professional careers
 * At the age of 20, she persuaded him to allow her to enter the University of Turin to study medicine.
 * __Neuroembryolgy __**
 * The branch of embryology dealing with the origin and development of the nervous system
 * __School __**
 * She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Turin Medical School in 1936
 * Then she completed a degree for specialization in neurology and psychiatry in 1940.
 * While in school she had two partners, Viktor Hamburger and Stanly Cohen
 * Rita set up laboratory equipment in her bedroom to continue her research on neurogenesis studying the growth of nerve fibers in chicken embryos
 * __Awards __**
 * Rita and cohen were arwarded the noble prize, but controvercy picked up in the wake of the award.
 * Some people were upset at Rita because she failed to acknowledge her debt to others, such as Rita and Hamburger
 * <span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro Bold',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Two of Rita’s university colleges and friend, Salvador Luria and Renato Dulbecco, also were to receive The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro Bold',serif; font-size: 14pt;">Late life __**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro Bold',serif; font-size: 12pt;">In 1999, the Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations named Rita one of its first four FAO Ambassadors
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro Bold',serif; font-size: 14pt;">Fun Facts __**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro Bold',serif; font-size: 12pt;">First and only Nobel Prize recipient to live past the age of 100.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro Bold',serif; font-size: 12pt;">There seems to be a chocolate shop around every corner in Rita’s hometown of Turin, Italy
 * <span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro Bold',serif; font-size: 12pt;">908,551 (2010) Turin, Population

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro Bold',serif; font-size: 14pt;">Citations
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro Bold',serif; font-size: 14pt;">Dash, Joan. The Triumph of Discovery: Woman scientists who won the Nobel Prize. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Julian Messner. 1991. Print. __**


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro Bold',serif; font-size: 14pt;">Dubinsky, Ellen “Rita Levi-Montalcini (b. 1909)” Medical Journeys Transplanting Medical Knowledge Across the World. Web. 18 September, 2013 __**


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro Bold',serif; font-size: 14pt;">Hitchcock, Susan T. Rita Levi-Montalcini: Nobel Prize winner. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, c2005.Print. __**


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro Bold',serif; font-size: 14pt;">Nature, “100 years of Rita” Nature. web. 18 September, 2013. __**


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro Bold',serif; font-size: 14pt;">"Rita Levi-Montalcini." Britannica School. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2013. Web. 20 Sep. 2013. <http://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/315032>. __**

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