Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Quotes
We bequeath to you, the next generation, our knowledge but also our problems. While we still live, let us join hands, hearts and minds to work together for their solution so that your world will be better than ours and the world of your children even better.
Yalow, Rosalyn S. Banquet Speech. Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, 10 Dec. 1977, Stockholm. Les Prix Nobel en 1977, edited by Wilhelm Odelberg, Nobel Foundation, 1978.
He did not personally deliver the speech in Stockholm as at the time he feared that if he left the Soviet Union he would not be allowed back in. So he wrote it, and it was read for him.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) for development of the radioimmunoassay technique. She was the second woman (after Gerty Cori), and the first American-born woman, to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.