The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Title:
Senior Medical Investigator
Affiliation:
VA Hospital
Bronx,New York USA
Gender:
Female
Year Deceased:
2011
Award Discipline:
Biological Sciences
Award Year:
1988
Citation:
"For her historic contributions to the discovery and development of radioimmunassay, a technique that employs radioactive isotopes to detect and measure the levels of insulin and hormones in the blood and body tissues."
Presented by President Reagan in a White House ceremony on July 15, 1988.
Nobel Laureate:
Physiology or Medicine, 1977