contrast the leitrim story with that of rita levi - montalcini , an italian nobel laureate who turned 100 last wednesday . she currently serves for work all day at the euro neurological research institution in rome , since she established . she was appointed a senator for life in 2001 , and in 2006 , ages 97 , she attended the closed assembly of the newly elected senate . she had interest in discussions in the upper lodge , and in 2004 defend the understanding of evolution in italian schools . there is no record of her having claimed a day off because of festival work . but she now manages to work up through the rose of tralee with lifting her head from her petri dish .
Rita Levi-Montalcini is a Nobel prize winner.