Rosalyn S. Yalow

Dates

July 19, 1921 – May 30, 2011

Authorized Form of Name

Yalow, Rosalyn S. (Rosalyn Sussman), 1921-2011

Additional Forms of Names

Yalow, R. S. (Rosalyn Sussman), 1921-2011

Yalow, Rosalyn S.

Biography

Abstract

Rosalyn Yalow was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1977 alongside Andrew B Schally and Roger Guillemin "for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones." RIA can trace even the smallest amounts of chemicals, hormones, and viruses in the body and has numerous applications in medicine today, such as diabetes testing and drug testing. She is the first American-born woman to receive a Nobel Prize and the first woman to receive the Albert Lasker Prize for Basic Medical Research altogether.

Important Dates

July 19, 1921Birth, New York (N.Y.).

1941B.A. degree in Chemistry and Physics, Hunger College, New York (N.Y.).

1945Ph.D in Nuclear Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana (Ill.).

1945Assistant Engineer, Federal Telecommunications Laboratory, ITT, New York (N.Y.).

1946 – 1950Physics Instructor, Hunter College, New York (N.Y.).

1947 – 2011Consultant; Researcher; Acting Chief of the Radioisotope Service (1968); Chief of the Nuclear Medicine Service (1970); Senior Medical Investigator emeritus (1972-2011); and Director of the Solomon A. Berson Research Laboratory (1973), Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital, Bronx (New York, N.Y.).

1950 – 1972Partnered with Solomon A. Berson on raioisotope research.

1959Yalow and Berson present their discovery of radioimmunoassays (RIA).

1961Awarded the Eli Lilly Award, American Diabetes Association.

1968 – 1986Research Professor; Distinguished Service Professor (1974); Solomon A. Berson Distinguished professor at large (1986), Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York (N.Y.).

1976Awarded the Albert Lasker Prize for Basic Medical Research, Lasker Foundation.

1977Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1977 alongside Andrew B Schally and Roger Guillemin "for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones".

1978Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

1980Distinguished Professor at large, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University.

1981Acting Chairperson, Department of Clinical Sciences, Montefiore Medical Center.

May 30, 2011Death, New York (N.Y.).

Occupation

Mecical physicst.

Places

Subjects

Relationships

People

Family

Yalow, Elanna S.

Daughter.

Advisors & Collaborators

Berson, Solomon A., 1918-1972

Partnered together for 22 years to dsicover and develop radioimmunoassays.

Dresselhaus, M. S.

Advised by Yalow, Hunter College.

Goldhaber, Maurice, 1911-2011

PhD advisor at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in Immunochemistry.

Schoenheimer, Rudolf, 1898-1941

Advisor, Columbia University.

Straus, Eugene

Collaborated at Solomon A. Berson Research Laboratory.

Additional

Curie, Marie, 1867-1934

Failla, Gioacchino

Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954

Quimby, Edith H. (Edith Hinkley), 1891-1982

Institutions

Major Positions

Hunter College

B.A in Chemistry and Physics (1941); and Physics Lecturer.

ITT Corporation

Assistant engineer.

Montefiore Medical Center

Acting Chairperson, Department of Clinical Sciences.

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Research Professor; Distinguished Service Professor; and Solomon A. Berson Distinguished Professor at large.

Veterans Administration Hospital (Bronx, New York, N.Y.)

Consultant; Researcher; Acting Chief of the Radioisotope service (1968); Chief of the Nuclear Medicine Service; Senior Medical Investigator emeritus (1972-2011); and Director of the Solomon A. Berson Research Laboratory (1973).

Yeshiva University

Distinguished Professor at large, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.