Italian scientist, turning 100, still works
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Italian neurologist and senator for life Rita Levi Montalcini, Nobel Prize winner for Medicine in 1986, …
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Sat Apr 18, 6:32 pm ET
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ROME – Rita Levi Montalcini, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, said Saturday that even though she is about to turn 100, her mind is sharper than it was she when she was 20.
Levi Montalcini, who also serves as a senator for life in Italy, celebrates her 100th birthday on Wednesday, and she spoke at a ceremony held in her honor by the European Brain Research Institute.
She shared the 1986 Nobel Prize for Medicine with American Stanley Cohen for discovering mechanisms that regulate the growth of cells and organs.
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Apr 18 2009