Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, MD

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, MD

A medical physicist and the second woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine (1977) for her work on for the development of radioimmunoassay of peptide hormones.

(1921 – 2011)

A medical physicist and the second woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine (1977) for her work on for the development of radioimmunoassay of peptide hormones.

In 1988 she was awarded National Medal of Science.

Alma mater:

Hunter College

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign