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...
Elon Musk was born in 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in economics and a Bachelor of Arts...
Kathrine Switzer (1947 – ) was a writer, television commentator, and North-American athlete, known for being the first woman to run a marathon (the...