by Rita Levi-Montalcini · Ediciones B · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440605955
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«Elogio de la imperfección» is the autobiography of Rita Levi-Montalcini, published by Ediciones B in hardcover (229 pages, in Spanish).
Rita Levi-Montalcini reconstructs her life and scientific career: childhood in Turin, antisemitic campaigns, the war, her time in the United States and her return to Italy. The work argues that the imperfection of the human brain favors adaptation and, from that idea, reflects on science, memory, female emancipation and the twentieth century.
Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1986, she published the work in Italian in 1987 as Elogio dell'imperfezione; this edition belongs to the Documentos collection.
For readers of scientific memoirs, twentieth-century history and neuroscience.
Rita Levi-Montalcini was an Italian neurobiologist. She was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with colleague Stanley Cohen for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF).
