Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
July 19, 1921 –May 30, 2011
Physicist, Physician, University teacher, Biophysicist
Lived 89 years
- Born in
- New York City
- Passed away in
- The Bronx
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (July 19, 1921 – May 30, 2011) 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.
Awards: Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, National Women's Hall of Fame, Canada Gairdner International Award, AMA Scientific Achievement Award, National Medal of Science, Dickson Prize in Medicine, Women in Technology Hall of Fame, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fred Conrad Koch Award Education: New York University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Hunter College, Walton High School
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