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Nobel Prize

so long and thanks for all the fish

R.I.P. Oldest Living Nobel Prize Winner, Biologist Rita Levi-Montalcini

by Susana Polo | 11:43 am, December 31st, 2012

Yesterday, at the age of 103, Rita Levi-Montalcini died the longest lived Nobel Prize Winner in history, the tenth woman to be elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the co-discoverer of nerve growth factor, and a woman who refused to let her father’s ideas about gender or a state’s ideas about race keep her from doing some pretty great science.

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Clever Girl

Meet 102-Year-Old Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, Who Might Know How to Live Forever

by Jamie Frevele | 2:10 pm, April 9th, 2012

Rita Levi-Montalcini, who will turn 103 on April 22, is the longest-living women to have won the Nobel Prize (for Physiology or Medicine) for her discovery of nerve growth factor, or NGF, a protein crucial for the growth, maintenance, and survival of neurons. She now continues to work every day as a Senator for Life in Italy. The fact that Levi-Montalcini discovered NGF (along with Stanley Cohen) is making people wonder: Has this woman unlocked one of the secrets to longevity? Exhibit A: She’s about to turn 103 and still goes to work every day.

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And That's Terrible

J.R.R. Tolkien Was Passed Over For A Nobel Prize In 1961 For Lord of the Rings

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:46 am, January 6th, 2012

A Nobel Prize is a goal people in many fields dream about throughout their career, but few actually achieve or live to see. Someone famous who came close? The Lord of the Rings author, J.R.R. Tolkien. Newly released documents have surfaced that reveal the fantasy author was nomniated for a Nobel in literature in 1961 and passed over by the comittee. And oh yeah, he was endorsed by friend and fellow author, C.S. Lewis. 

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