Rita Levi-Montalcini

In 1939 she graduated in Medicine Faculty of Turin University, where she remained until Mussolini's anti-Semitic policy made him abandon it that same year.

In 1947, she collaborated with Washington University of Saint Louis with zoologist Viktor Hamburger. In 1896 she shared the Physiology and Medicine Nobel Prize with S. Cohen (a former collaborator), for her discovery of the substance know as a factor for the growth of nerves, which causes the growth of neurones.

In 1952, she deepened in that experiment until checking that the growth of nerves was caused by a substance segregated by tumour. In 1988, she published the autobiographical work Elogio de la imperfección.