Italian scientist, turning 100, still works (AP)

April 19th, 2009 by admin

Italian scientist, turning 100, still works
(AP)

Italian neurologist and senator for life Rita Levi Montalcini, Nobel Prize winner for Medicine in 1986, seen with a glass, at the end of a press conference for her one hundredth birthday in Rome, Saturday April 18, 2009.  Montalcini will be 100 years old on April 22. The Italian scientist received the Nobel prize for medicine with Stanley Cohen of the United States,  in 1986, for discoveries of mechanisms that regulate the growth of cells and organs. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)AP – 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.

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