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109: This Will Get On Your Nerves

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🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Rita Levi-Montalcini is probably one of the greatest scientists you’ve never heard of. She created a lab in a spare room when Jews were banned from science in WWII, continued to work when she was 100 years old, and fought against fascism! Oh, and she knew a lot about nerves…

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References & Further Reading
  1. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1986/levi-montalcini/facts/
  2. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rita-Levi-Montalcini
  3. https://www.pnas.org/content/110/13/4873
  4. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/finding-the-good-rita-levi-montalcini/
  5. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/2012/dec/30/rita-levi-montalcini
  6. https://www.nature.com/news/2009/090401/full/458564a.html
  7. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jez.1400680305
  8. https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1952.tb26548.x

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