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7 figures
Leonardo da Vinci
1452 – 1519Proved that art and science are one act of looking.
Italy·Engineering · Biology · Astronomy · LiteratureFull profile
Galileo Galilei
1564 – 1642Pointed a telescope upward and broke the authority of the ancients.
Italy·Astronomy · Physics · MathematicsFull profile
Alessandro Volta
1745 – 1827Built the first battery; the volt is his.
Italy·Physics · Chemistry
Camillo Golgi
1843 – 1926The silver stain that made neurons visible.
Italy·Medicine · BiologyNobel
Guglielmo Marconi
1874 – 1937Made radio a transatlantic reality.
Italy·Engineering · PhysicsNobel
Rita Levi-Montalcini
1909 – 2012Discovered nerve growth factor in a bedroom lab under fascist persecution.
Italy·Medicine · BiologyNobel
Primo Levi
1919 – 1987Chemist whose Auschwitz testimony is the standard of moral witness.
Italy·Literature · Chemistry