Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
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Her childhood

• Born July 19th, 1921 in Bronx, New York
• Raised in New York and lived there until current
  day
• Says that she was a very stubborn child that was
  always very willing to learn and go to school
• Began to read before she was in kindergarten

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Her Early Education

• When she was in 7th grade, she was committed to
  mathematics.
• Later the concepts of chemistry fascinated her
  when introduced by her high school teacher, Mr.
  Mondzak
• After finishing high school, she moved on to go
  to Hunter College

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Hunter College

• Rosalyn was taught physics by Professors Herbert
  N. Otis and Duane Roller.
• The concepts of nuclear physics intrigued her the
  others surrounding her.
• She attended the colloquium given by Enrico Fermi
  about the newly discovered nuclear
  fissionlearned about its good and bad uses

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Her Journey to Graduate School

• Began typing for a leading biochemist, Dr. Rudolf
  Schoenheimer
• In February of 1941 she became a teaching
  assistant at the University of Illinois.
• On becoming a teaching assistant, she quit being
  a secretary and took two tuition-free physics
  courses at NYU
• She became the first woman on the faculty since
  1917

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At Graduate School

• On her first day, she met her future husband,
  Aaron Yalow.
• Took very hard academic classes during the day
  and at night, but still made straight As
• Her marriage and the attack on Pearl Harbor
  marked the start of her research. She went to
  Hunter college again to teach physics to
  returning veterans. She was now full-time.

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Her Home Life

• She later quit teaching and began researching
  with Dr. Soloman A. Berson.
• She had two kids,Benjamin and Elanna.
• A house in Riverdalegot sleep-in help and
  part-time help in raising the kids.
• Benjamin is currently 25 and Elanna is now 23,
  both very accomplished

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What did Rosalyn Yalow do?

• American medical physicist who helped develop the
  testing technique called radioimmunoassay.
• RIA Is a method of protein analysis and is used
  to detect interactions between foreign protein
  and complex protein.

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autobio.html
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/html/09timeline.html
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The RIA technique

• developed the RIA technique for
  determining/measuring the quantity of small
  amounts of biological substances in body fluids
  using radioactively labeled materials
• wide application in medicine
• (received Nobel Prize in medicine for this work)

• she has angered feminist and confronted the
  public panic about radiation
• the RIA technique can measure very very small
  amounts of hormones and enzymes that the Nobel
  Prize committee compared it to detecting ½ cube
  of sugar dissolved in a 3600 sq. mile lake 1 foot
  deep

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http//shop.store.yahoo.com/scibook/rosyalnoblau.h
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Rosalyn Yalow, Nobel Laureate Her Life and Work
in Medicine -by EugeneStraus
-In her the lab in 1977-
http//www.britannica.com/nobel/micro/647_47.html
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1976

• She was the first women to win the Lasker Award
  for the Basic Medical Research.

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1977

• In 1977, Yalow accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for
  inventing RIA.

http//www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1977/yalow-
lecture.pdf
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1997

• Just a few years ago Rosalyn Yalow was inducted
  into the Women in Technology International Hall
  of Fame

http//www.witi.com/center/witimuseum/halloffame/1
997/ryalow.shtml
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Now

• She now teaches and supervises research in the Va
  lab as the Berson Distinguished Service Professor
  at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine .

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Works Cited

• Kotulak , Ronald. The Boston Globe / Table of
  Contents. 5 Jan. 1981. The Boston Globe . 4 Apr.
  2002 lthttp//www.boston.com/globe/search/stories/n
  obel/1981/1981ae.htmlgt.
• Lemelson. "Rosalyn S. Yalow" Radiommunoassay.
  http//web.mit.edu/invent/www/inventorsR-Z/yalow.h
  tml ( Jan. 1999)
• Rosaline YalowAutoBiography. Home page. 1977.
  Nobel e-museum. 2 April 2002. lthttp//www.nobel.s
  e/medicine/laureates/1977/yalow--autobio.htmlgt
• Straus, Eugene. Rosalyn Yalow Nobel Laureate. 4
  Apr. 2002 lthttp//shop.store.yahoo.com/scibook/ros
  yalnoblau.htmlgt.
• "Yalow, Rosalyn Sussman." 1993. Encarta. 4 Apr.
  2002 lthttp//encarta.msn.com/index/conciseindex/2A
  /02aba000.htm?z1pg2br1gt.