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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

1921 - 2011

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (July 19, 1921 – May 30, 2011) was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) for development of the radioimmunoassay technique. She was the second woman (after Gerty Cori), and the first American-born woman, to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow is the 125th most popular physicist (up from 174th in 2019), the 404th most popular biography from United States (up from 627th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Physicist.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was a medical physicist and physiologist. She won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1977 for her work in developing the radioimmunoassay technique, which is used to measure the concentration of hormones and other substances in the blood.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow ranks 125 out of 851. Before her are Arnold Sommerfeld, François Arago, Albert Fert, Owen Chamberlain, Anders Jonas Ångström, and Joseph von Fraunhofer. After her are Alfred Kastler, Josiah Willard Gibbs, William Rowan Hamilton, Arthur Compton, Simon van der Meer, and James Rainwater.

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Among people born in 1921, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow ranks 17. Before her are Stanisław Lem, Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Yves Montand, Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and Hua Guofeng. After her are Nancy Reagan, John Rawls, Giulietta Masina, Simone Signoret, Peter Ustinov, and P. V. Narasimha Rao. Among people deceased in 2011, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow ranks 16. Before her are Cesária Évora, Peter Falk, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Sócrates, Sathya Sai Baba, and Svetlana Alliluyeva. After her are Simon van der Meer, Rudolf Mössbauer, Ágota Kristóf, Joe Frazier, Herbert A. Hauptman, and Jack LaLanne.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow ranks 404 out of 20,380. Before her are Edward Thorndike (1874), Rocky Marciano (1923), John Ford (1894), Lee Van Cleef (1925), Audie Murphy (1925), and Jamie Foxx (1967). After her are Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839), James Brown (1933), Geraldine Chaplin (1944), George Smith (1941), Sarah Palin (1964), and Iggy Pop (1947).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow ranks 18. Before her are Percy Williams Bridgman (1882), Donald A. Glaser (1926), Clinton Davisson (1881), Ernest Lawrence (1901), Willis Lamb (1913), and Owen Chamberlain (1920). After her are Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839), Arthur Compton (1892), James Rainwater (1917), Robert Coleman Richardson (1937), Clifford Shull (1915), and John Bardeen (1908).

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