Two years after her death,BoincItaly is pleased to announce the second challenge dedicated to a great scientist who has devoted her whole life to the research : Rita Levi Montalcini . She received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF) .

This is a last-year challenge, I try to do my best crunching..

As the clock ticks down on this turbulent year it is good to see so many crunchers going for gold! Keep it up all! Let us ring in this New Year with a BANG! Keep the pressure on SETI.USA!

Welcome SETI.USA!!! Now the race can really begin :-)

Mumps__[MM], all Boinc.Italy hard crunchers are astonished for your impressive performance !!!!

zioriga, thanks. Now let's see if we can make Boinc.Italy sweat in these last 15 hours. Thanks for issuing this challenge!

You're welcome to try Mumps. But, why so late? There's no fun in a race without a final head to head on the finish lane :-)

And be sure: the Rita Levi-Montalcini and the Margherita Hack challenges, Decembre and June, will be forever the Boinc.ITALY double yearly dates!

What a great challenge. Thank you all. At the very least it made me aware of who Rita Levi-Montalcini was and her contributions to the field of neurobiology.

Well done, @BOINC.Italy. Congratulations on the win. Thank you for the challenge. We had fun!

@BOINC.Italy - awesome crunching, that was a fun one!

Many thanks to the SETI.USA crunchers, we haven't sweat very hard to this challenge without you!! I hope to see you in the next Rita Levi Montalcini challenge!

Thank you to Boinc.Italy for a great challenge! Best of luck to you and the other great crunchers/teams that participated in the challenge.