Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

✶July 19, 1921

†May 30, 2011

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for development of the radioimmunoassay technique. She was the second woman, and the first American-born woman, to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

American medical physicist (1921-2011)

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