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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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 2008) was a Russian novelist, historian and political prisoner. Being an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union, he helped...
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...
Dolly Parton (1946) a humble Tennessee native with a determined spirit rose up from a poor beginning to become an international country legend. She...