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

Dresselhaus was generally accommodating, quick to avoid confrontation, and always seeking places where she could quietly make a positive mark, whereas Yalow was singularly headstrong.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2022

Rosalyn S. Yalow, winner of a Nobel in 1977, was informed years earlier by The Journal of Clinical Investigation that her landmark findings on insulin and antibodies were “dogmatic” and “not warranted by the data.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 14, 2019

Developed by Rosalyn Sussman Yalow and Solomon Berson in the 1950s, the technique is known for extreme sensitivity, meaning that it can detect and measure very small quantities of a substance.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Based on her significant contribution to medicine, Yalow received a Nobel Prize, making her the second woman to be awarded the prize for medicine.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Researchers such as Harvey Cushing and Rosalyn Yalow, who won a Nobel for her hormone-measuring technique, made lasting advances.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 13, 2018