The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977
Awarded on: 1977-10-13
"for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones"
Affiliations:
- Veterans Administration Hospital – Bronx, NY, USA
Rosalyn Yalow
Born: 1921-07-19 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: female
Field: American medical physicist (1921–2011)
Biography
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.