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Rita Levi-Montalcini

1909 – 2012

Discovered nerve growth factor in a bedroom lab under fascist persecution.

Italy·Medicine · BiologyNobel

Alan Hodgkin & Andrew Huxley

1914 – 1998

Explained the nerve impulse in mathematical terms.

United Kingdom·Medicine · BiologyNobel

Frantz Fanon

1925 – 1961

Psychiatrist whose Wretched of the Earth remains the core text of decolonisation.

France·Philosophy · Medicine

Katalin Karikó

b. 1955

Demoted, defunded, and right: her mRNA work produced the COVID vaccines.

Hungary·Medicine · Biology · ChemistryNobelFull profile