American medical physicist (1921-2011)
She built a test that could detect substances in the blood at concentrations so small they had been invisible to medicine — and opened the door to diagnosing diabetes, tracking hormones, and screening blood supplies.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was born July 19, 1921, and trained as a medical physicist at a time when laboratories barely admitted women. She developed the radioimmunoassay technique, a method using radioactive tracers to measure infinitesimal amounts of biological substances in blood and tissue. The breakthrough earned her the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally. She was the second woman to win in that category, after Gerty Cori, and the first American-born woman to do so. Yalow died May 30, 2011, decades after the test she created became stand…
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We cannot expect in the immediate future that all women who seek it will achieve full equality of opportunity.
Initially, new ideas are rejected. Later they become dogma, if you’re right. And if you’re really lucky you can publish your rejections as part of your Nobel presentation.
We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and want to belong exclusively in the home.
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