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
confidence believe believe-in-us
We must believe in ourselves or no one will believe in us.
strong-women believe home
We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.
determination teaching believe
We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.
children believe knowledge
If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors. We transmit to you, the next generation, the total sum of our knowledge. Yours is the responsibility to use it, add to it, and transmit it to your children.
determination moving believe
We cannot expect in the immediate future that all women who seek it will achieve full equality of opportunity. But if women are tostart moving towards that goal, we must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.
family great music passion work
Everything's a real passion to me - my children, my family, my work, travel. I don't play tennis, I don't play music, but I have a great time.
examine lots popular quarters women
There's lots of prejudice, but if you examine yourself, you can make It. Of course, this doesn't make me too popular with some quarters in the women s movement.
college forcing graduate handed happiness key people school silver slaves unhappy work
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.
I worked for 22 years with Sol Berson.
pointed
Some are very hostile if mistakes are pointed out. I'm not. If I make a mistake, I make a mistake.
developed function himself man nature slowly
Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.
challenge difference difficult men merely science seen women
The only difference between men and women in science is that the women have the babies. This makes it more difficult for women in science but should not be seen as a barrier, for it is merely another challenge to be overcome.
beyond far golden mysterious points primitive silver within
To primitive man, the sky was wonderful, mysterious and awesome, but he could not even dream of what was within the golden disk or silver points of light so far beyond his reach.
college courses good graduate job physicians promised school secretary surgeons
They told me that, as a woman, I'd never get into graduate school in physics, so they got me a job as a secretary at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and promised that, if I were a good girl, I would take courses there.