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'''Primo Michele Levi'''<ref>Ian Thomson, ''Primo Levi'' (2019) pp.17-18,138</ref><ref>Carole Angier,''The Double Bond: Primo Levi: A Biography,'' Penguin 2002 p.35:'Although Cesare never talked about his father he called his son after him, Primo Michele – I don’t know whether Primo thought of this as a fateful link but at the end of his life he thought more than once of his grandfather. Several times he spoke of a hereditary taint of suicide in his family. What he didn’t know about it was that it had come out not once but twice in his grandfather’s generation and he did not know that Michele himself had thrown himself to his death from a height, as he himself would do 99 years later. Michele had even leapt into a small inner courtyard, as he would leapt from a stairwell.'</ref> ({{IPA-it|ˈpriːmo ˈlɛːvi|lang}}; 31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was ana Jewish-Italian chemist, [[Partisan (military)|partisan]], writer, and Jewish [[Holocaust survivor]]. 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]]'' (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 Germany|Nazi]]-occupied Poland; and ''[[The Periodic Table (short story collection)|The Periodic Table]]'' (1975), a collection of mostly autobiographical short stories each named after a chemical element as it played a role in each story, which the [[Royal Institution]] named the [[best science book ever]] written.<ref>{{cite news |last=Randerson |first=James |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/oct/21/uk.books |title=Levi's memoir beats Darwin to win science book title |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=20 October 2006 |access-date=30 March 2012 }}</ref>