Rita Leviová-Montalciniová, byla italská neuroložka židovského původu, objevitelka nervového růstového faktoru. Je považována za jednu z nejvýznamnějších neuroložek 20. století, obdržela ta nejprestižnější ocenění ve svém oboru, včetně Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research a Nobelovy ceny za fyziologii a lékařství .
Byla členkou Papežské akademie věd a Národní akademie věd Spojených států amerických , rytířkou velkokříže Řádu zásluh o Italskou republiku a doživotní senátorkou Itálie . Až do jejího úmrtí šlo o nejstarší žijící nositelku Nobelovy ceny a o jediného laureáta v historii, který se dožil 100 let věku. Wikipedia
„Ve 100 mám mysl, která je lepší - díky zkušenosti - než když mi bylo 20.“
Originál: (en) At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.
Zdroj: [Italian Nobel laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini dies, bbc.co.uk, 2012-12-30, 2012-12-31, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20871120]
“At 100, I have a mind that is superior — thanks to experience — than when I was 20.”
Zdroj: Quoted in Associated Press obituary http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50324234/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.UO09q6w1fTp
Zdroj: https://www.frasicelebri.it/frasi-di/rita-levi-montalcini/.
Of the fact that she never married; quoted in Associated Press obituary.
“Better to add life to your days than days to your life.”
Zdroj: https://www.frasicelebri.it/frasi-di/rita-levi-montalcini/.
“I'm an atheist: I don't know what it means to believe in God.”
Zdroj: Interview with Piergiorgio Odifreddi in Incontri con menti straordinarie (TEA, Milano, 2007), ISBN 978-88-502-1523-2.
“The women who changed the world never needed to show anything other than their own intelligence.”
Zdroj: Cited in Addio a Rita Levi Montalcini, scienziata e donna straordinaria http://www.panorama.it/scienza/rita-levi-montalcini-morta/, Panorama.it, 30 dicembre 2012.
Zdroj: In an interview with Paolo Giordano, 100 anni di futuro, Wired, n. 1, marzo 2009. <br class="br">Zdroj: Cited by Elisabetta Intini, Addio alla signora della scienza, le sue frasi più belle http://www.focus.it/scienza/addio-alla-signora-della-scienza-le-sue-frasi-piu-belle, Focus.it, 31 dicembre 2012. <br class="br">Zdroj: Cited in Addio Rita Levi Montalcini, le frasi più belle di un genio gentile http://www.vanityfair.it/news/italia/12/12/30/rita-levi-montalcini-morta-frasi, VanityFair.it, 30 dicembre 2012.
Stanley Cohen, quoted in New York Times obituary http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/science/dr-rita-levi-montalcini-a-revolutionary-in-the-study-of-the-brain-dies-at-103.html?_r=0 <br class="br">About
Obituary in The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/dec/30/rita-levi-montalcini <br class="br">About
Rebutting allegations that the pharmaceutical company Fidia had paid for her to get her Nobel prize. Quoted in Obituary in The Guardian
“After centuries of dormancy, young women can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.”
Quoted in Obituary in The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/dec/30/rita-levi-montalcini
Quoted in New York Times obituary http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/science/dr-rita-levi-montalcini-a-revolutionary-in-the-study-of-the-brain-dies-at-103.html?_r=0
Zdroj: In an interview with Paolo Giordano, 100 anni di futuro, Wired, n. 1, marzo 2009.
Zdroj: https://www.frasicelebri.it/frasi-di/rita-levi-montalcini/.
Zdroj: From the presentation Elogio dell'imperfezione (Garzanti, 1987), Liceo classico Massimo d'Azeglio, Torino; cited in Giovanni Berlinguer, Il leopardo in salotto, Editori Riuniti, 1990.
