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
I worked for 22 years with Sol Berson.
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I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system.
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For the past 30 years, I have been committed to the development and application of radioisotopic methodology to analyze the fine structure of biologic systems.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.