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
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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.
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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.
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New truths become evident when new tools become available.
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The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.
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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.
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The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.
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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.
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We must believe in ourselves or no one will believe in us.
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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.
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As long as you're learning you're not old.
simple simplicity principles
Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle.
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The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
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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
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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.