David Attenborough, because he introduced me to the world.
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When were you happiest?
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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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2011 source ↗
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