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Read more: https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/rita-levi-montalcini
TIL Ruth Levi-Montalcini was kicked out of medical school under Mussolini’s Race Laws, moved to Brussels where she lived and studied until Hitler’s imminent takeover, and ended up setting up a laboratory in her bedroom back in Italy. In 1986, she won the Nobel Prize in Medicine and lived until 103.
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her real name was rita levi-montalcini, why americanize her first name?
Loved learning this today, thanks for sharing.
She was also a senator and some times the government led by Italy’s leftmost parties could pass some laws just because of her vote. I loved her.