1/02/2014

RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI

Rita Levi-Montalcini (22 April 1909 – 30 December 2012) was an Italian neurologist who, together with colleague Stanley Cohen, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF). From 2001 until her death she  was a Senator for Life. Rita Levi-Montalcini had been the oldest living Nobel laureate and 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.  In 1968, she became the tenth woman elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences. In 1974, although a professed atheist, she became a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. In 1987, she received the National Medal of Science, the highest American scientific honour. In 1991, she received the Laurea Honoris Causa in Medicine from the University of Trieste, Italy. On that occasion, she expressed her desire to formulate a Carta of Human Duties as necessary counterpart of the too much neglected Declaration of Human Rights. The vision of Rita Levi-Montalcini came true with the issuing of the Trieste Declaration of Human Duties and the foundation in 1993 of the International Council of Human Duties, ICHD, at the University of Trieste.

1.     Rita Levi-Montalcini
a)    Received the Nobel Prize for Peace
b)    Received the Nobel Prize for Medicine with two colleagues
c)    Received the Nobel Prize for Medicine with a colleague
d)    Received the Nobel Prize for Literature
2.     Rita Levi- Montalcini
a)    Was elected to the USA Academy of Maths
b)    Was the first woman elected  to the US National Academy of Sciences.
c)    Was elected to USA Senate
d)    Was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 1968
3.     Rita Levi-Montalcini
a)    Supported the  issuing of  a  Declaration of Human Duties
b)    Supported the  issuing of the Trieste Declaration of Human Rights
c)    Supported the  issuing of the Florence  Declaration of Human Duties
d)    Supported the  issuing of the Trieste Declaration of Human Jobs




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