![The Nobel Prize on Twitter: "Rita Levi-Montalcini's groundbreaking investigations into how the nervous system develops deepened understanding of medical problems like senile dementia, deformities, and tumour diseases. She was 103 years old The Nobel Prize on Twitter: "Rita Levi-Montalcini's groundbreaking investigations into how the nervous system develops deepened understanding of medical problems like senile dementia, deformities, and tumour diseases. She was 103 years old](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQLt7xFXsAAuQNq.jpg:large)
The Nobel Prize on Twitter: "Rita Levi-Montalcini's groundbreaking investigations into how the nervous system develops deepened understanding of medical problems like senile dementia, deformities, and tumour diseases. She was 103 years old
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Dismissed under Mussolini, later Nobel prize winner – the importance of scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini
Nobel Prize - Pioneering neurologist Rita Levi-Montalcini's groundbreaking investigations into how the nervous system develops deepened understanding of medical problems like senile dementia, deformities, and tumour diseases. Born in Italy in 1909,
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