Yalow

[ yal-oh ]

noun

1. Ros·a·lyn (Suss·man) [roz, -, uh, -lin , suhs, -m, uh, n], 1921–2011, U.S. medical physicist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1977.

Yalow

/ yăl′ō /

1. American physicist who, working with the biophysicist Solomon A. Berson, developed the radioimmunoassay (RIA), an extremely sensitive technique for measuring very small quantities of substances such as hormones, enzymes, and drugs in the blood. For this work, she won a 1977 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

Example Sentences

In truth, encourage may not be the most accurate word to describe Yalow's early support.

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In a New York Times interview that same year, Dresselhaus said of Yalow, "You met her and she said, 'You're going to do this.' She told me I should focus on science. She left the exact science unspecified but said I should do something at the forefront of some area."

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Dresselhaus was generally accommodating, quick to avoid confrontation, and always seeking places where she could quietly make a positive mark, whereas Yalow was singularly headstrong.

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Yet when she took someone under her wing, as she did with Dresselhaus, Yalow was extremely loyal.

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Yalow, her mentor, had won the award two years prior.

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