Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Rosalyn Yalow, born Sussman ( born July 19, 1921 in New York City, New York, † May 30, 2011 ibid ) was an American physicist. In 1977 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
Life
Rosalyn Sussman grew up as the daughter of immigrants couple Clara and Simon Sussman in New York.
Even while she specialized in physics at Hunter College, she heard in 1939 at Columbia University to the lectures by Enrico Fermi. She learned there also her future husband, Aaron Yalow, know; their studies they funded secretarial work for their professors.
After her graduation to B. A. in Physics in January 1941, she was offered an assistant position at the University of Illinois, where she claimed to be the only woman among 400 students. In 1942, she made her there M.S. in Physics, 1943, she married Aaron Yalow. In 1945, she completed her studies with a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from. After working briefly - the only woman - the Federal Telecommunications Laboratory ' ( ITT), she returned 1946 as a physics professor to the Hunter College, she taught until 1950.
In 1947 she began in addition to their teaching at the Veterans Administration Hospital in the Bronx, New York to work. In July 1950, her 22 -year-old working closely with Solomon Aaron Berson began. They focused on the detection of peptides in the blood. After they were able to measure globins and other serum proteins, they turned to smaller molecules. In their insulin studies, they discovered that diabetics treated with insulin preparations developed antibodies against the animal insulins. From this they derived methods for the measurement of insulin levels from the blood. In 1959 she referred to as the birth of the method of radioimmunoassay, which is now used worldwide in medical laboratories. Berson and Yalow did not patent their findings so that they are generally available. In 1968, Solomon Berson as head of department to the Department of Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Yalow took over the interim management and was appointed in 1970 as Chief. After the early death of Berson 1972, the laboratory was renamed in Solomon A. Berson Yalows desire Research Laboratory, so did his name will continue to be on my papers as long as I publish and so did his Contributions to our service will be memoralized.
Rosalyn Yalow taught from 1968 to 1979 at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine from 1975 to 1985 at the Yeshiwa University in New York.
From 1973 to 1979 she was co-editor of Hormone and Metabolic Research.
1971 Yalow received a Gairdner Foundation International Award, the Albert Lasker Award in 1976 for Basic Medical Research. In 1977 she was awarded for the development of radioimmunological methods of determination of peptide hormones with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She was so Gerty Cori after the second woman to receive this award.
From 1980 to 1985, Yalow chairman of the Department of Clinical Science, Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center.
Rosalyn Yalow retired in 1986 and became Emeritus Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University
Rosalyn Yalow and Aaron have two children, Benjamin and B'Elanna. They lived in Riverdale, New York.