Sadly, Rita Levi-Montalcini has decided she's worked for long enough.

[dehro]

that is, unless she's just taking a break and will emerge from the grave to do some more work.
(http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=168298413)
I'm not a scientist but you don't need to be one to see how much she's contributed to our understanding of life, biology, medicine and..well.. she was important to keep science alive in the Italian educational system as well, so..
thank you, Rita,
rest well.

[Morph Bark]

*thumps chest* Respect, signora.

[Chilingsworth]

Wow, before I read that article, the only anti-fascist Italian science hero (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScienceHero) I knew of was Enrico Fermi. Thanks for doubling my knowledge of this category of person!

[dehro]

Wow, before I read that article, the only anti-fascist Italian science hero (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScienceHero) I knew of was Enrico Fermi. Thanks for doubling my knowledge of this category of person!

there have been a few more than that.. mostly people who worked with Fermi..
Renato Dulbecco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renato_Dulbecco), although he spent a considerable time in the army, before joining the resistance..
incidentally, Dulbecco was a good friend of Levi-Montalcini, had studied together with her under Levi, and later in life apparently joked about having had a major crush on her, before meeting the woman that he ended up marrying.

come to think of it however, I'm not sure whether any of them actually used science to fight against the bad guys in the war..