Primo Levi
(1919-1987)
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer
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Primo Michele Levi (31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was a Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. His best-known works include: If This Is a Man (Se questo è un uomo, 1947, published as Survival in Auschwitz in the United States), his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and The Periodic Table (1975), a collection of mostly autobiographical short stories, each named after a chemical element which plays a role in each story, which the Royal Institution named the best science book ever written.
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Primo Michele Levi 31 July 1919 Turin, Italy
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11 April 1987 (aged 67) Turin, Italy (residence)
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| Zodiac | Leo |
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