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ROME — Rita Levi-Montalcini, a biologist who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping unlock the mysteries of the cell, died at her home in Rome on Sunday. She was 103 and had worked well into her final years.

Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno, announcing her death in a statement, called it a great loss `’for all of humanity.” He praised her as someone who represented “civic conscience, culture and the spirit of research of our time.”

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Rita Levimontalcini Dead

In this photo from files, taken on April 18, 2009, Italian neurologist
and senator for life Rita Levi Montalcini, Nobel Prize winner for
medicine in 1986, is seen at a press conference for her 100th birthday, in Rome.

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