Rosalyn Sussman Yalow - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	19-July-1921
Place of Birth	The Bronx (United States of America, New York City, New York)
Nationality	United States of America
Profession	Physicist, Scientist
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for development of the radioimmunoassay technique. She was the second American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize Physiology or Medicine after Gerty Cori.

Awards by Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Check all the awards nominated and won by Rosalyn Sussman Yalow.

1988

National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences	(For her historic contributions to the discovery and development of radioimmunassay, a technique that employs radioactive isotopes to detect and measure the levels of insulin and hormones in the blood and body tissues.)

1977

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	(for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones)

1976

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research	(For the discovery and development of the technique of radioimmunoassay.)

1971

Gairdner Foundation International Award	(For their development of a reliable, specific and sensitive method for the assay of plasma insulin, and their subsequent application of the same principles in the measurement of other polypeptide substances.)

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