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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

 

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