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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

1921 – 2011 · aged 90

American medical physicist (1921-2011)

Born
19 Jul 1921 · New York City
Died
30 May 2011 · The Bronx

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 103 years
  1. 19 Jul 1921BornBorn in New York City
  2. 1971AwardCanada Gairdner International Award
  3. 1971AwardHoward Taylor Ricketts Prize
  4. 1972AwardDickson Prize in Medicine
  5. 1972AwardFred Conrad Koch Award
  6. 1975AwardAMA Scientific Achievement Award
  7. 1976AwardAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
  8. 1977AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  9. 1978AwardLadies' Home Journal Women of the Year
  10. 1979AwardHonorary doctorate of Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
  11. 1983AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Miami
  12. 1988AwardNational Medal of Science
  13. 1993AwardNational Women's Hall of Fame
  14. 30 May 2011DiedDied in The Bronx

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1921 – 2011).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (July 19, 1921 – May 30, 2011) 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.

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