Remembering History: Rosalyn Sussan Yalow, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology in 1977, although both her M.S. and Ph.D. were earned in nuclear physics for the development of radioimmunoassay. She wanted to go to medical school but she was a woman and Jewish and was advised to become a secretary. She and Dr. Solomon Berson, discovered radioisotopes for diagnosis to measure minute quantities of biologically active molecules. Both researchers refused to patent the method and gave it to the world.

Rosalyn Sussan Yalow, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology in 1977, although both her M.S. and Ph.D. were earned in nuclear physics for the development of radioimmunoassay. She wanted to go to medical school but she was a woman and Jewish and was advised to become a secretary. She and Dr. Solomon Berson, discovered radioisotopes for diagnosis to measure minute quantities of biologically active molecules. Both researchers refused to patent the method and gave it to the world.

Rosalyn Sussan Yalow, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology in 1977, although both her M.S. and Ph.D. were earned in nuclear physics for the development of radioimmunoassay. She wanted to go to medical school but she was a woman and Jewish and was advised to become a secretary. She and Dr. Solomon Berson, discovered radioisotopes for diagnosis to measure minute quantities of biologically active molecules. Both researchers refused to patent the method and gave it to the world.