Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was an American biochemist and a medical physicist who received Nobel Prize in 1977

Jul 19, 1921

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: July 19, 1921
  • Died on: May 30, 2011
  • Nationality: American
  • Famous: Medical Physicist, New York University, University Of Illinois, Scientists, Biochemists
  • Spouses: Aaron Yalow
  • Childrens: Benjamin, Elanna
  • Universities:
    • New York University,University Of Illinois
    • Hunter College
    • University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow born at

New York City, New York, U.S.

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Birth Place

She married Aaron Yalow in 1943 and had two children, a son named Benjamin and a daughter named Elanna.

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Personal Life

Rosalyn S. Yalow died in New York, USA, on May 30, 2011.

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Personal Life

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was born in The Bronx, New York City, USA, on July 19, 1921. Her father, Simon Sussman, was son of a Russian immigrant, and her mother, Clara Zipper was a German immigrant. She had an elder brother named Alexander.

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Childhood & Early Life

Not having any formal education, both her parents instilled the urge to read and write in their children by going to the public library as they did not have enough books.

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Childhood & Early Life

Yalow joined the ‘Walton High School’ in the Bronx and became interested in science subjects like mathematics and chemistry.

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Childhood & Early Life

After graduation from the high school she enrolled at Hunter College which conducted courses especially for women. This college became a part of the ‘City University of New York’ later. Here she took up nuclear physics as her major subject. She persisted with her studies even though her parents wanted her to be a school teacher.

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Childhood & Early Life

She graduated from Hunter College in January 1941 with honors and joined a business school where she did not stay for long.

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Childhood & Early Life

Rosalyn Yalow returned to New York in January 1945 without her husband Aaron Yalow who was still busy completing his thesis at the ‘University of Illinois’ and could join her only in September 1945.

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Career

She joined the ‘Federal Telecommunications Laboratory’ as the only woman assistant engineer but had to return to ‘Hunter College’ when the laboratory closed down in 1946.

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Career

She started teaching physics at Hunter College from 1946 to 1950 to not only women but also veterans returning from the war.

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Career

In December 1947 she was appointed as a part-time consultant of nuclear physics to the ‘Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital’. She served here as an assistant chief and physicist of the department dealing with radioisotopes. She retained her teaching post at Hunter College till the spring of 1950.

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Career

At Hunter College she started her research on the effects of radioisotopes on different diseases with the help of another American physicist named Solomon A. Berson.

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Career

Rosalyn S. Yalow was the first female scientist to be awarded the ‘Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award’ in 1976.

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Awards & Achievements

She received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1977.

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Awards & Achievements

She received the ‘National Medal of Science in 1988.

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Awards & Achievements