Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
19 July 1921 – 30 May 2011
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was an American medical physicist who, with Solomon Berson, developed the radioimmunoassay, a technique for measuring minute concentrations of hormones and other substances in blood. She spent most of her career at the Veterans Administration hospital in the Bronx. In 1977 she became the second woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Life events
She was born Rosalyn Sussman on 19 July 1921 to a family of modest means.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe completed her undergraduate degree in 1941 as one of the college's first physics majors.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe was the only woman on the College of Engineering faculty at Urbana-Champaign when she arrived in 1941.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe married a fellow physics graduate student in 1943; the couple had two children.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe completed her doctorate at the University of Illinois in 1945.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe began as a consultant in 1947 and helped build its radioisotope service, remaining there for decades.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe physician joined her at the VA hospital in 1950 and the two worked together until his death in 1972.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTheir method for measuring plasma insulin, published around 1960, allowed extremely small quantities of substances to be measured in blood.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe shared the 1977 prize with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally, the second woman to receive it.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe died on 30 May 2011 at the age of 89.
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