Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Quotes


Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that it was fortunate that I chose to do acceptable things, for if I had chosen otherwise, no one could have deflected me from my path.


Citations

Yalow, Rosalyn S. "Rosalyn Yalow - Biographical." Les Prix Nobel en 1977, edited by Wilhelm Odelberg, Nobel Foundation, 1978.

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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.