Levi-Montalcini built a small research lab in her bedroom (and, when the bombing of Turin became too intense, in the attic of the country cottage to which her family fled), where she conducted experiments on chick embryos. That, my friends, is scientific grace under extreme pressure.
So writes Jennifer Ouellette about Rita Levi-Montalcini, who discovered nerve growth factor, for which years later she shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Monday, July 21st, 2008 at 12:02 am
under Arts and science, Improbable investigators, News about research.
