Rosalyn (Sussman) Yalow
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Rosalyn (Sussman) Yalow (1921 - 2011)

Rosalyn Yalow formerly Sussman
Born in The Bronx, New York City, New York, United Statesmap
Sister of [private brother (1910s - unknown)]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died at age 89 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, United Statesmap
Profile last modified | Created 21 Nov 2015
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American medical physicist and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the development of the radioimmunoassay technique.

Biography

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Rosalyn was born in 1921. She married a fellow student Aaron Yalow, in June 1943. They were married 49 years until his death.

She accepted an assistant teaching position at the " University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in the College of Engineering; there were 400 faculty members, she was the only woman faculty member. "She earned her Ph.D. in nuclear physics and learned how to build and use equipment to measure radioactive substances." [1]

Awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the development of radioimmunoassays (RIA) of peptide hormones, a method for measuring concentrations of substances in the blood. [2] She was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. The first was Gerti Cori, she was not from America. [3] Her team used insulin, in their experiments, they would attach radioactive tags to the insulin and test on themselves and other volunteers In the practical application it would make diabetics' lives much easier. " ... it wasn’t just hormones: in Yalow's 1977 Nobel Lecture, she listed more than 100 biological substances - hormones, drugs, vitamins, enzymes, viruses, non-hormonal proteins, and more - that one could measure using RIA."

She died in 2011.

Awards, Honors, and Recognitions

  • Fulbright fellowship
  • Eli Lilly Award from the American Diabetes Association
  • Gairdner Foundation International Award
  • American College of Physicians Award
  • William S. Middleton Award for Excellence in Research
  • Koch Award from the Endocrine Society
  • American Medical Association Scientific Achievement Award
  • Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
  • Nobel Prize
  • Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
  • Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • A. Cressy Morrison Award in Natural Sciences of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • National Medal of Science, which is given to American individuals who deserve the highest honor in science and technology
  • National Women's Hall of Fame

Sources

  1. https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/rosalyn-yalow
  2. https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/rosalyn-s-yalow/
  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalyn_Sussman_Yalow
  • "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VMD5-462 : accessed 21 November 2015), Rosalyn Yalow, 30 May 2011; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
  • "United States Census, 1930", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7DJ-H81 : accessed 21 November 2015), Rosalyn Sussman in entry for Samuel Sussman, 1930. Source: S228991619 1930 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc 2002 Provo, UT, USA Record Collection 6224 Note: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. <i>Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930</i>. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.
  • "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https:/familysearch.org/ark:/619031:1:VMD5-462 : accessed 21 November 2015), Rosalyn Yalow, 30 May 2011; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
  • Source: S228991508 U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 2012 Lehi, UT, USA Record Collection 60525, Find A Grave: Memorial #70724269.
  • Source: S228991598 1940 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 2012 Provo, UT, USA Record Collection 2442 Note: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. <i>Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940</i>. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.

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