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A Japanese organization of atomic bombing survivors wins the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5148728

The organization is called 日本原水爆被害者団体協議会 (Nihon gensuibaku higaisha dantai kyōgi-kai, Japan Confederation of A-bomb Victims Organizations). 日本被団協 (Nihon Hidankyō) for short. Japanese loves to abbreviate. (原水爆--gensuibaku) means "nuclear weapon.")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihon_Hidankyo

This organization was awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize "for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again".

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Rita Levi-Montalcini celebrating her one hundredth birthday in Rome.

Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012) was the first Nobel Prize winner to reach the age of 100. Born in Italy, she talked her father into letting her study medicine.

During the Jewish persecution and World War II, she had to leave her university and eventually flee to the countryside with her family, but she kept working on science, dissecting chick embryos.

After the war, she moved to the US, where she discovered nerve growth factor, which guides the development of the nervous system. She later became an Italian senator for life.

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