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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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.
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I was an early reader, reading even before kindergarten, and since we did not have books in my home, my older brother, Alexander, was responsible for our trip every week to the public library to exchange books already read for new ones to be read.
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Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.
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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.