https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll en-us 2018-01-31 14:24:00 UTC 2026-03-17 08:51:05 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Templeball.png ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/226587346 Today was a pretty usual day. You know just discovered the Nerve Growth Factor. Six years of hard work finally paying off. No big deal🔍📚
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May 28, 1952]]> 2018-01-31 14:51:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/226587346 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/226591365 Just graduated from medical school at the University of Turin!  Summa cum laude😆🎓
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May 22, 1936]]> 2018-01-31 14:57:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/226591365 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/226595551 Studying NGF in chick embryos in contact with mouse tumors. I think it's caused by a chemical. Not too sure yet🐁🐤
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June 23, 1940]]> 2018-01-31 15:04:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/226595551 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/226597654 @TheRealSteveCohen back at it again! He's so brilliant, always discovering and exploring! Was working with him today and we determined the chemical's protein structure!🔬
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September 17, 1978]]> 2018-01-31 15:07:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/226597654 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/226600359 OMGGGGG.... I GOT A NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY AND MEDICINE!!🏆
So excited, thankful, grateful, and fortunate! Thank you to everyone who has supported me through this long and amazing journey!
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November 12, 1986]]> 2018-01-31 15:11:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/226600359 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/226753959 Good news!! Anyone you know have Alzheiners or Huntingtons disease?
Well you're in luck, because NGF produced by genetic engineering is now being studied for treating nerve cells!
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Febuary 1, 1965]]> 2018-01-31 19:06:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/226753959 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/226764172 Ugh, thanks a lot for stealing my Birthday🙄 Ha! Love you so much sis!! Happy 83rd birthday! 😘🎈🎂 @PaolaTheOneAndOnly
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April 22, 1974]]> 2018-01-31 19:22:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/226764172 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/226844570 The Italian National Research Council just transformed my research unit into The Laboratory of Cell Biology!!! Yeah you heard me @$MauriceWilkins$BestScientistEver$
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July 7, 1969]]> 2018-01-31 22:57:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/226844570 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/226847373 It was such a pleasure working with you @RitaLevi_1909! You're such an inspiration and I'm so proud of us. We make a great team!😃
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September 19, 1978]]> 2018-01-31 23:15:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/226847373 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/226848573 ooh shaaddee! That's my girl Rita😆 @@RitaLevi_1909
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July 7, 1969]]> 2018-01-31 23:21:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/226848573 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/226849814 Changing the world one sassy look at a time😎 What have you been doing?
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December 2, 1980]]> 2018-01-31 23:29:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/226849814 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227172143 Returning to Italy today where my laboratory is going to be established into the Higher Institute of Health in Rome!!
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January 26, 1961]]> 2018-02-01 17:36:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227172143 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227183803 Just got elected as a member of The National Academy of Sciences📜
10th woman to be elected since the academy was founded💁
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August 6, 1968]]> 2018-02-01 17:55:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227183803 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227196055 Received an invitation from Hamburg to enter a research project on chick embryonic development at Washington University.
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August 24, 1946]]> 2018-02-01 18:15:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227196055 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227227780 OML. I AM OUTRAGED. Systematic bombing by allied forces means that I have to relocate my home laboratory to the countryside😰😓
Wish me luck guys🤞
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March 18, 1942]]> 2018-02-01 19:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227227780 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227232267 I'm sooo sorry Rita!☹
Best of luck to you!
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March 18, 1942]]> 2018-02-01 19:15:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227232267 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227240814 Just got a job as an associate professor in zoology!🐾
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April 15, 1956]]> 2018-02-01 19:30:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227240814 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227242695  Guys, I finally worked my way up to be a full professor!! So excited to keep discovering as an official😀🔎
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June 14, 1958]]> 2018-02-01 19:34:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227242695 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227252874 The Korean war has begun and things are getting pretty worrisome😟
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June 25, 1950]]> 2018-02-01 19:52:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227252874 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227255495 Korean war just ended!! Finally, a truce agreement has been signed!📝
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July 27, 1953]]> 2018-02-01 19:57:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227255495 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227306721 Determined the amino acid sequence for NGF today with my postdoctoral biochemist pals @RuthHogue🐖 @RalphTheChemistryDude at Washington University.
December 19, 1971]]> 2018-02-01 22:15:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227306721 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227308775 I'm super upset right now you guys. I've been forced to resign as a research assistant because of the racial manifesto, and I'm Jewish😤
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March 8, 1938 ]]> 2018-02-01 22:25:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227308775 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227311524 Amelia Earhart mysteriously disappeared today while in flight over the Pacific Ocean. She was such an inspiration and a hero. You will be missed Amelia.


July 2, 1937]]> 2018-02-01 22:39:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227311524 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227312850 The gene that includes NGF has been identified! Now the protein can become synthesized so it can be more easily explored! No one else is excited about new biotechnological methods? Just me?
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August 13, 1983]]> 2018-02-01 22:45:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227312850 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227314758 Well I totally just founded the European Brain Research Institute.📚😆 I guess this is as close as I'll get to ever being a president😅
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October 20, 2002]]> 2018-02-01 22:55:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227314758 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227535397 Just identified the endogenous compound palmitoylethanolamide!🔬 It's an important modulator of the mast cell in human pathology.🕺🕺
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April 30, 1993]]> 2018-02-02 15:40:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227535397 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227538807 The fall of the Berlin Wall happened today. The East Berlin's Communists Party spokesman announced a change in relations with the west. 
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November 9, 1989]]> 2018-02-02 15:46:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227538807 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227620371 NASA just launched the Ulysses Probe to study our heliosphere! We plan to see the results in 5 years 🛰☀
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October 6, 1990]]> 2018-02-02 18:28:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227620371 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227658252 A major snowstorm paralyzed mid-western United States. Bless all of the families impacted by this. Stay safe everyone.
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]]> 2018-02-02 19:52:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227658252 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227661754 Hey everyone. Two days ago, my beloved Paola sister passed away. I'm slowly but surely putting myself back together but I may never fully recover. I miss and love you Paola. Thank you for all of the great times we had together.❤
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October 1, 2000]]> 2018-02-02 19:59:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227661754 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227664599 sry for ur loss rita. that real sad
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October 1, 2000]]> 2018-02-02 20:06:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227664599 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227665506 I'm so sorry Rita. She was an amazing person and such a talented painter. She will be remembered and will have a place in all of our hearts. 💕
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October 2, 2000]]> 2018-02-02 20:08:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227665506 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227668509 Happy 90th to me🎉
Still lookin good 👉😉👉
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April 22, 2005]]> 2018-02-02 20:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227668509 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227669950 Got interviewed by Adam Smith (Editor-in-Chief) today! Such an intellectual. Thanks for having me!
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November 26, 2008]]> 2018-02-02 20:24:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/227669950 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/228397345 Today is the birth of the Rita Levi-Montalcini Foundation😝😀
We help young women from African countries get their education at full levels📖
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October 15, 1995]]> 2018-02-06 00:01:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/228397345 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/228402589 Bye guys!! Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger just launched instagram! Shutting down this account. It was a good run🙂
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October 6, 2010]]> 2018-02-06 00:42:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/228402589 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/228403160 @RitaLevi_1909 signed out]]> 2018-02-06 00:46:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/228403160 ssmith237 https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/228403656 2018-02-06 00:50:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ssmith237/6tk3osbzfyll/wish/228403656