Rita Levi-Montalcini and HM King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden enjoy a light moment at the Nobel Banquet in the Stockholm City Hall, Sweden, on 10 December 1986.

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Portrait of Rita Levi-Montalcini at an interview in Rome for Nobelprize.org, 26 November 2008.

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Interview with the 1986 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Rita Levi-Montalcini, Rome, 26 November 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org.

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Rita Levi-Montalcini at the Nobelprize.org interview in Rome, 26 November 2008.

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Portrait of Rita Levi-Montalcini. Photo taken at an event celebrating the 90th birthday of Italian director and screenwriter, Mario Monicelli, in Rome 2005.

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Rita Levi-Montalcini in her laboratory in the early 1960s.

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Rita Levi-Montalcini in her office at Washington University in the late 1950s.

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Rita Levi-Montalcini in her laboratory. Photo taken ca 1959.

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