Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Rosalyn Sussman Yalowwas an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicinefor development of the radioimmunoassaytechnique. She was the second American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize Physiology or Medicine after Gerty Cori...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth19 July 1921
CountryUnited States of America
careers duty encourage science women
I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science.
exciting field late nuclear physics
In the late '30's when I was in college, physics - and in particular, nuclear physics - was the most exciting field in the world.
adequate causes death improved infectious less prominent regions supplies
Infectious diseases have become less prominent as causes of death and disability in regions of improved sanitation and adequate supplies of antibiotics.
impact intuition balls
My crystal ball or intuition tells me that in the '80s the impact of RIA [radioimmunoassay] on the study of infectious diseases may prove as revolutionary as its impact on endocrinology in the 60s.
medicine heaven research
The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as examplified by RIA [radioimmunoassay], has shown the potential for opening new vistas in science and medicine
discrimination social position
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
simple simplicity principles
Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle.
nursing long rehabilitation
As long as you're learning you're not old.
past achievement fewer
In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.
thinking class long
I have long felt that the trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are discriminated against think of themselves as second-class.
war opportunity feminist
The war gave women like her opportunities, not a feminist movement, and if the opportunities dwindled after the war, she feels that it was because women didn't want them.
opportunity giving fool
The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.
children order scientist
All women scientists should marry, rear children, cook, and clean in order to achieve fulfillment, to be a complete woman.
powerful ignorance science
There is at present in the United States a powerful activist movement that is anti-intellectual, anti-science, and anti-technology. If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the Earth, we must depend on the continued revolutions brought about by science.