biography
| name: |
Yalow, Rosalyn S(ussman)
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pronunciation:
[yaloh]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1921– )
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| biography:
| Medical physicist, born in New York City, USA. She studied at Hunter College, New York City, and the University of Illinois. From 1947 she turned her attention to nuclear medicine at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital. There she developed radio-immunoassay, a technique for measuring minute concentrations of active biological substances such as hormones. Director of the Berson Research Laboratory from 1973, she shared the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. |
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