Today in History: 22 April 1909: Italian neurobiologist Rita Levi-Montalcini was born in Turin, to parents who were an electrical engineer and mathematician. In her teens, she admired Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf and decided to become a writer. After seeing a close family friend die of stomach cancer, she changed her mind and enrolled in the Universi…
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