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Rosalyn Sussman Yarrow

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Rosalyn Sussman Yarrow

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (English: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, July 19, 1921 - May 30, 2011) was an American medical physicist who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Salley for developing radioimmunoassays for peptide hormones. She was the second American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, after Gertie Corey.

Category
Scientists
Nationality
United States
Born
1921-07-19
Died
2011-05-30
Wikidata
Q107402
Occupations physicistdoctoruniversity teacherbiophysicist
Aliases Rosalyn S. YalowRosalyn Sussman YalowRosalyn YalowRosalyn YelloRosalyn Sussman YarrowRosalyn Sussman YelloRosalyn Sussman Yarrow

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