Rosalyn Sussman Yalow came from a feisty Jewish immigrant family in the Bronx. She never considered her race, gender, and background an excuse for delay as she pushed through a physics degree at Hunter College and a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois. Working with Solomon Berson at the Bronx Veteran's Administration Hospital after World War II, she set up a system for measuring radioactive isotopes in biological systems. Collaborating they were able to study the treatment of thyroid cancer with radioactive iodine and learn how insulin functions in adult diabetics. They carried the work further to establish the field of radio-immuno-assay, for which Yalow was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1977. Artist: Mayu M.

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