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.


Citations

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.

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
  • Born: July 19, 1921
  • Died: May 30, 2011
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Scientist

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.