An Italian neuroscientist called Rita Levi-Montalcini. She is now over 100. Under Mussolini she was forbidden from practising medicine because of the race laws. So she set up a lab in her basement, and the work she did there laid the foundations for her winning the Nobel prize.
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Susan Greenfield
British scientist
United Kingdom · b. 1950
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Susan Greenfield, 61, was raised in west London, where her father was an electrician and her mother a dancer. She studied psychology and neurochemistry at Oxford University. Since 1996, she has been professor of pharmacology at Oxford, where she heads a research group into Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. In 1998, she became the first woman director of the Royal Institution, but was controversially dismissed in 2010. She was awarded a CBE in 2000 and granted a life peerage in 2001. Her latest book, You And Me: The Neuroscience Of Identity, is published by Notting Hill Editions.
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