Yalow

American  

[yal-oh] / ˈyæl oʊ /

noun

1. Rosalyn (Sussman) 1921–2011, U.S. medical physicist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1977.

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Yalow Scientific  

/ 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.

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Example Sentences

Yalow became a trusted mentor who would nurture Dresselhaus in ways large and small throughout her career.

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To supplement her course work, Yalow suggested that Dresselhaus attend colloquia hosted by the Columbia University Department of Physics, home to individuals like Willis Lamb and Polykarp Kusch, who would go on to share a Nobel Prize for work on electrons and hydrogen, and to Chien-Shiung Wu, an expert in radioactive decay whose monumental experiment on the conservation of parity would lead to a Nobel for two of her male colleagues.

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Dresselhaus did take Yalow's exhortations to heart and changed her focus from education to physical sciences.

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With lavish praise from Yalow and other Hunter faculty, Dresselhaus secured several opportunities for advanced study as she neared graduation.

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

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