28 ian. 2010

She is my hero: RITA LEVI MONTALCINI










<< The secret of longevity: no food, no husband and no regrets
Brain scientist and Nobel laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini tells Richard Owen why she wants to forget turning 100

"The professoressa is a bit tired,” an adviser to Rita Levi-Montalcini warned me as I prepared to interview Italy's Nobel prize-winning Life Senator on the eve of her 100th birthday. “Don't wear her out.”

I arrive to find the professoressa, as she is universally known, in the dress shop below her office in Rome, in an elegant black dress buttoned to the neck and a gold brooch of her own design, white hair immaculately coiffed, ...>>

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