Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Quotes


If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.


Citations

Straus, Eugene. Rosalyn Yalow, Nobel Laureate: Her Life and Work in Medicine. Plenum Trade, 1998, p. 177.

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
  • Born: July 19, 1921
  • Died: May 30, 2011
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Scientist

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) for development of the radioimmunoassay technique. She was the second woman (after Gerty Cori), and the first American-born woman, to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.