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YALOW, Rosalyn Sussman (1921 – 2011)

YALOW, Rosalyn Sussman (1921 – 2011)

1921 – 2011

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1960 CE

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Immunosassay of endogenous plasma insulin in man.

YALOW, Rosalyn Sussman (1921 – 2011)
YALOW, Rosalyn Sussman (1921 – 2011) BERSON, Solomon Aaron (1918 – 1972)

First radioimmunoassay of a hormone, a test capable of estimating nonogram or even picogram quantities. In 1977 Yalow received half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the development of radioimmunoassay…