Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909 - 2012) was an Italian American neurologist who, along with her collaborator Stanley Cohen, won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of a protein that stimulates the growth of nerve cells, in technical jargon NGF. Thanks to her persistence and innovative spirit, she was a prominent personality in both the medical and social fields.
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Stanisława Leszczyńska (1896 – 1974) is known as a woman who helped deliver around 3000 babies in Auschwitz concentration camp where the women called...
Emmeline Pankhurst was born in Manchester in 1858. She was a political activist and leader of the British women's rights movement, "Women's Social and...
Malala Yousafzai (1997) is a Pakistani activist for education and is the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Malala stood up...