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Rita Levi-Montalcini

Italian neurologist.

Born April 22nd, 1909 in Turin. [ref]

Died December 30th, 2012 at 103 years old in Rome (cardiac arrest). [ref]

Occupations
biochemist, neurologist, neuroscientist, physician, politician, scientist

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel