Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
American medical physicist (1921-2011)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Developed the radioimmunoassay technique that revolutionized hormone measurement and earned the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The first American-born woman to win the award.
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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for development of the radioimmunoassay technique. She was the second woman, and the first American-born woman, to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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