Watch the very moment Rita Levi-Montalcini received her Nobel Prize in 1986. Levi-Montalcini shared the 1986 Medicine Prize with Stanley Cohen "for their discoveries of growth factors." #NobelPrize | Nobel Prize

Rita Levi-Montalcini was born in Turin, Italy in 1909. Her father prioritised traditional gender roles and discouraged his daughters from pursuing higher education or professional careers, believing that their primary responsibilities were to their future roles as wives and mothers. She knew this was not her path and insisted on studying medicine. Thanks to her fortitude and determination we now have a deeper understanding of medical problems like deformities, senile dementia, delayed wound heal