Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1977)

Rosalyn Yalow , née Sussman (born July 19, 1921 in New York City , New York ; † May 30, 2011 there ) was an American physicist and nuclear medicine specialist . She mainly worked in the field of hormone research . In 1977 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine .

Life

Rosalyn Sussman grew up as the daughter of the immigrant couple Clara and Simon Sussman in New York.

Even while she was specializing in physics at Hunter College there, she listened to Enrico Fermi's lectures at Columbia University in 1939 . It was there that she met her future husband, Aaron Yalow; She financed her studies through secretarial work for her professors.

After graduating with a BA in Physics in January 1941, she was offered an assistantship at the University of Illinois, where she asserted herself as the only woman among 400 students. In 1942 she did her MS in Physics there , and in 1943 she married Aaron Yalow. In 1945 she completed her studies with a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics . After a brief employment - as the only woman - at the Federal Telecommunications Laboratory ( ITT ), she returned to Hunter College as a physics professor in 1946, where she taught until 1950.

As early as 1947 she began working alongside her teaching activities at the Veterans Administration Hospital in the Bronx , New York . In July 1950, she began working closely with Solomon Aaron Berson for 22 years . They focused on detecting peptides in the blood. After measuring globins and other serum proteins, they turned to smaller molecules. During their insulin studies, they discovered that diabetics treated with insulin preparations developed antibodies against the animal insulins. From this they derived methods for measuring the insulin level in the blood. 1959 marks the birth of the radioimmunoassay method , which is used today in medical laboratories around the world. Berson and Yalow did not patent their findings so that they would be generally available. In 1968 Solomon Berson went to the Department of Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine as director of the institute and Yalow took over the interim management and was appointed chief in 1970 . After Berson's early death in 1972, the laboratory was renamed Solomon A. Berson Research Laboratory at Yalow's request , so that his name will continue to be on my papers as long as I publish and so that his contributions to our Service will be memoralized .

Rosalyn Yalow taught at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine from 1968 to 1979 and at Yeshiwa University in New York from 1975 to 1985 .

From 1973 to 1979 she was co-editor of Hormone and Metabolic Research .

Yalow received a Gairdner Foundation International Award in 1971, the Fred Conrad Koch Award in 1972 , and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1976 . In 1977 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the development of radioimmunological methods for the determination of peptide hormones . After Gerty Cori, she was the second woman to receive this award. In 1975 she was admitted to the National Academy of Sciences and in 1978 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

From 1980 to 1985, Yalow was chair of the Department of Clinical Science, Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center .

In 1986 Rosalyn Yalow retired and became Professor Emeritus, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University

Rosalyn and Aaron Yalow had two children, Benjamin and Elanna. They lived in Riverdale, New York.

In 2002 an asteroid was named after her: (13915) Yalow .

literature

Web links

Commons : Rosalyn Sussman Yalow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Autobiography at nobelprize.org - main source of the revision on March 27, 2010
  2. ^ UCLA biography
  3. ↑ Rosalyn S. Yalow: Methods in Radioimmunoassay of Peptide Hormones. 1976.
personal data
SURNAME Sussman Yalow, Rosalyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yalow, Rosalyn; Sussman, Rosalyn (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist and nuclear medicine specialist
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 2011
PLACE OF DEATH New York City , New York