In 1977, Rosalyn Yalow became the second woman to win a Nobel prize in medicine for co-developing radio-immunoassay (RIA), a groundbreaking technique that uses radioactive isotopes to quickly and ...

She was from New York, she was Jewish, she was a woman, and so Rosalyn Yalow was deemed unworthy of a career in science. But refusing to take no for an answer, she ultimately proved herself worthy of ...

Physicist Rosalyn S. Yalow, who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the development of a medical diagnostic test that revolutionized patient care and led to a new understanding ...

As an Orthodox American Jew, the story of Rosalyn Sussman Yalow is the most relatable of all Jewish Nobel Laureates. She, too, was an American Orthodox Jew. She lived in New York her whole life, ...

Dr. Rosalyn Yalow showed me that that being different should never be an obstacle preventing success. Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear army camouflage and combat boots, while others wear ...

When Rosalyn Yalow was applying for graduate fellowships in 1941 after earning a B.A. in chemistry and physics magna cum laude from Hunter College, she found only one school honest enough to explain ...

Rosalyn Yalow, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who co-developed the laboratory technique of radioimmunoassay that permits measurement of once immeasurably small quantities of hormones and other ...

The work that won her the Nobel Prize concerned peptide hormones — substances built up by chains of amino acids that are secreted by the pituitary and thyroid glands, the parathyroid glands, the ...

In 1941, Rosalyn Yalow, a graduate of Hunter College with honors, told her teachers she wanted to be a scientist. They suggested she become a secretary to one. Yalow persisted and 36 years after that ...

Rosalyn Yalow, who died on May 30 aged 89, was one of a handful of women scientists to win a Nobel Prize; in 1977 she became only the second woman to win the prize in physiology or medicine, for her ...