"The Italian Nobel prize-winning neurologist Rita Levi-Montalcini has died at the age of 103. Dr Levi-Montalcini lived through anti-semitic discrimination under fascism to become one of Italy's top scientists and most respected figures. She won acclaim for her work on cells, which furthered understanding of a range of conditions, including cancer. In 1986 she shared the Nobel prize for medicine with biochemist Stanley Cohen for research carried out in the US. Her niece, Piera Levi-Montalcini, told La Stampa newspaper that she had died peacefully "as if sleeping" after lunch."
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