She studied under top anatomist Giuseppe Levi, whom she often credited for her own success and for that of two fellow students and close friends, Salvador Luria and Renato Dulbecco, who also became separate Nobel Prize winners. At age 20 she overcame her father's objections that women should not study and obtained a degree in medicine and surgery from Turin University in 1936. Levi-Montalcini was born April 22, 1909, to a Jewish family in the northern city of Turin. She told the Turin daily newspaper La Stampa that her aunt passed away peacefully "as if sleeping" after lunch and that the scientist had kept up her research studies several hours a day `'right up until the end."
“Throughout her remarkable career, Rita Levi Montalcini has embodied the highest ideals of science and humanitarianism, and we at McGill are delighted to pay tribute to her in this way,” said Professor Heather Munroe-Blum, McGill’s Principal and Vice-Chancellor."A beacon of life is extinguished" with her death, said a niece, Piera Levi-Montalcini, who is a city councilwoman in Turin. In 2001, she was appointed Senator for Life of the Italian Republic. To date it has awarded some 7,000 study fellowships to young women in different African countries. In 1992 she established the Rita Levi Montalcini Onlus Foundation, whose aim is to enable women living in the countries of the South, especially Africa, to access all levels of education. Rita Levi Montalcini has been a tireless champion of social issues related to research, particularly those of ethics and women in science. In 1987, she received the National Medal of Science from the President of the United States. Stanley Cohen, led to her being jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1986. Her research on the multiple actions of NGF with her colleague Dr. Louis led to the discovery of the Nerve Growth Factor, or NGF. She was a driving force behind the creation of the European Brain Research Institute in Rome, where she remains active.
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As a full professor from 1958 to 1977, she divided her time between Rome and St. Louis, Mo., changed the course of her life. Undaunted, she continued her experimental work in an improvised laboratory, first in her bedroom and then in a cottage in the countryside to which she fled during the Second World War bombing of Turin in 1941.Īfter the war, an invitation to work at Washington University in St. Two years later, laws were promulgated enforcing Mussolini’s “Manifesto per la Difesa della Razza” (“Manifest in Defence of the Race”) and she was expelled from her position in Turin’s Department of Anatomy. Rita Levi Montalcini, born in Turin in 1909, graduated from the University of Turin with a degree in Medicine and Surgery in 1936. Claudio Cuello, of McGill’s Faculty of Medicine. McGill was represented at the ceremony in Rome by Provost Anthony C. The first was in 1944, when Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were honoured in Quebec City.
The occasion marked the first time in McGill’s 190-year history that the University has conferred an honorary doctorate on foreign soil – and only the second time that such a degree has been awarded off campus.
McGill University recognized the exceptional contributions to medicine and society of Rita Levi Montalcini by awarding her a Doctor of Science honorary degree at a ceremony hosted by Sapienza Università di Roma on Wednesday, Feb.
Event marks first conferral of a McGill honorary doctorate on foreign soil
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