In 1977, Rosalyn Yalow became the second woman to win a Nobel prize in medicine for co-developing radio-immunoassay (RIA), a groundbreaking technique that uses radioactive isotopes to quickly and ...

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Physicist Rosalyn S. Yalow, who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the development of a medical diagnostic test that revolutionized patient care and led to a new understanding ...

Today we celebrate the birthdate of the second woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology, an accolade too typically awarded to males. Her name is Rosalyn Yalow and she received this ...