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Rita Levi-Montalcini   OMRI   OMCA  ( US :  / ˌ l eɪ v i   ˌ m oʊ n t ɑː l ˈ tʃ iː n i ,   ˌ l ɛ v -,   ˌ l iː v i   ˌ m ɒ n t əl ˈ -/ ,   Italian:  [ˈriːta ˈlɛːvi montalˈtʃiːni] ; 22 April 1909 – 30 December 2012) was an Italian  Nobel laureate , honored for her work in  neurobiology . She was awarded the 1986  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine  jointly with colleague  Stanley Cohen  for the discovery of  nerve growth factor  (NGF).

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983 Born: 16 June 1902, Hartford, CT, USA Died: 2 September 1992, Huntington, NY, USA Affiliation at the time of the award: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA Prize motivation: “for her discovery of mobile genetic elements”

Perhaps the finest nature writer of the Twentieth Century, Rachel Carson (1907-1964) is remembered more today as the woman who challenged the notion that humans could obtain mastery over nature by chemicals, bombs and space travel than for her studies of ocean life. Her sensational book Silent Spring (1962) warned of the dangers to all natural systems from the misuse of chemical pesticides such as DDT, and questioned the scope and direction of modern science, initiated the contemporary environmental movement.  

Lise Meitner  ( / ˈ l iː z ə   ˈ m aɪ t n ər /   LEE -zə  MYTE -nər ,  German:  [ˈliːzə ˈmaɪtnɐ]   ( listen ) ; born Elise Meitner, 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish  physicist  who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the element  protactinium  and  nuclear fission . While working on radioactivity at the  Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Chemistry  in  Berlin , she discovered the  radioactive isotope   protactinium-231  in 1917. In 1938, Meitner and her nephew, the physicist  Otto Robert Frisch ,  discovered nuclear fission . She was praised by  Albert Einstein  as the "German  Marie Curie ".

One of the  New York Times’  most popular journalists presents groundbreaking scientific news about marriage. And, surprise: It’s good news.

Alexandre Tkatchenko  is   a Professor of Theoretical Chemical Physics at the University of Luxembourg and also Head of the   Department of Physics and Materials Science   (DPhyMS). Prof. Tkatchenko   obtained his bachelor degree in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. Between 2008 and 2010, he was an  Alexander von Humboldt Fellow  at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin. Between 2011 and 2016, he led an independent research group at the same institute. Prof. Tkatchenkoe has given more than 280 invited talks, seminars and colloquia worldwide, and currently serves on the editorial boards of two scientific society journals: Physical Review Letters (APS) and Science Advances (AAAS). He has received a number of awards, including elected  Fellow of the American Physical Society , the  van der Waals Prize from NCNI-2021 , the  2020 Dirac Medal from WATOC , the  Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Aw

Rudi Balling is a German geneticist. He is the founding director of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine at the University of Luxembourg He has served as president of the International Mammalian Genome Society and as co-editor of the Annual Review of Nutrition since 2018.