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Rita Levi-Montalcini ((:ˈriːta ˈlɛːvi montalˈtʃiːni); 22 April 1909 – 30 December 2012) was an Italian Nobel Laureate honored for her work in neurobiology. She was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with colleague Stanley Cohen for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1986/ )〕 From 2001 until her death, she also served in the Italian Senate as a Senator for Life. Rita Levi-Montalcini had been the oldest living Nobel laureate and was the first ever to reach a 100th birthday. On 22 April 2009, she was feted with a 100th birthday party at Rome's city hall. ==Early life and education== Levi-Montalcini was born on 22 April 1909 in Turin,〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.senato.it/leg/16/BGT/Schede/Attsen/00018431.htm )〕 to a wealthy Sephardi Jewish family.〔http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21569019-rita-levi-montalcini-biologist-died-december-30th-aged-103-rita-levi-montalcini Rita Levi-Montalcini〕〔 She and her twin sister Paola were the youngest of four children. Her parents were Adele Montalcini, a painter, and Adamo Levi, an electrical engineer and mathematician. In her teenage years she considered becoming a writer, and admired Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf, but after seeing a close family friend die of stomach cancer she decided to attend the University of Turin Medical School. Her father discouraged his daughters from attending college, as he feared it would disrupt their lives as wives and mothers, but eventually he supported Levi-Montalcini's aspirations to become a doctor.〔 At the University of Turin the neurohistologist Giuseppe Levi sparked her interest in the developing nervous system.〔 After graduating with an M.D. in 1936 she remained at the university as Levi's assistant, but her academic career was cut short by Benito Mussolini's 1938 Manifesto of Race and the subsequent introduction of laws barring Jews from academic and professional careers.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rita Levi-Montalcini」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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