contrasted the leitrim story with that of lucia levy - montalcini , an italians nobel researcher who aged 100 last wednesday . she therefore attends for duty every day at the italian brain researcher institute in rome , which she founded . she was commissioned a senator for life in 2001 , and in 2006 , under 97 , she attended the openings assembly of the newly elected council . she takes participation in sessions in the upper houses , and in 2004 defended the textbook of life in italian schools . there is no documentation of her having took a day off because of the work . apparently she even able to work right through the rose of dundalk without lifting her head from her bisque dish .
Rita Levi-Montalcini is a Nobel prize winner.