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!!Rita Levi-Montalcini

Academia Europaea announces with profound sadness the passing away of Professor [Rita Levi-Montalcini|User/Levi-Montalcini_Rita], Nobel Laureate, at the age of 103 on December 30, 2012. Prof. Levi-Montalcini had been the oldest living Nobel laureate and was the first ever to reach a 100th birthday.
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[Obituary|http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/dec/30/rita-levi-montalcini], The Guardian.
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