Nobel-prize winning neuroscientist Rita Levi-Montalcini has passed away at the age of 103, just a few months after publishing her last scientific study.
She won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of nerve growth factor along with her colleague Stanley Cohen and continued worked well past the time when most people would have retired.
Her most recent scientific study was published earlier this year, at the age of 102, and extended the work for which she won the Nobel.
If you want more background on a fantastic neuroscientist and her ground-breaking work, Nature published a profile in 2009, on her 100th birthday.
Link to obituary in the New York Times.
Link to Nature profile.
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