Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

American medical physicist

Date of Birth: 19-Jul-1921

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 30-May-2011

Profession: physician, physicist, university teacher, biophysicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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 (RIA) technique.
She was the second woman (the first being Gerty Cori), and the first American-born woman, to be awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.