Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Quotes
We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband.
Yalow, Rosalyn S. Banquet Speech. Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, 10 Dec. 1977, Stockholm. Les Prix Nobel en 1977, edited by Wilhelm Odelberg, Nobel Foundation, 1978.
He served a jail sentence in Britain for inciting race hatred.
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.