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An inspirational story of the Nobel Prize winner who broke the gender barrier in science

The biography of Rosalyn Yalow, as told by her longtime friend and colleague Eugene Straus, is the story of a woman who prevailed against class and gender prejudice to reach the pinnacle of the science world. Yalow's story is related against the backdrop of her later years, when, after having won the Nobel Prize in medicine for inventing a revolutionary test for certain kinds of hormones, she was suddenly felled by a stroke and brought to a hospital where, unrecognized, she was "dumped" as a charity case onto another hospital. Straus's account of Yalow's slow but ultimate triumph over crippling illness is of a piece with that of the dazzlingly talented and tenacious young woman who, despite the barriers placed before her by a male-dominated medical establishment, never compromised her principles of hard work and scientific integrity.Amazon.com Review
This biography of Rosalyn Yalow chronicles more than the lifeand scientific achievements of a dedicated research scientist. Thetenacity Yalow applied to achieving her life's goals--a good familyand a Nobel Prize-winning scientific career (medicine-physiology,1977)--reveals what is both wonderful and wrong with United Statesresearch science and medicine. Issues like gender bias, informedconsent for patients in clinical trials, fear of radioactivity, andthe role of research, education, and patient care in hospitals, wherethe bottom line looms large, are all discussed in the context of thisremarkable woman's life.

As a Jewish woman, Rosalyn Sussman was unique among her classmateswhen she began graduate school in physics at the University ofIllinois in 1941.Three and a half years later, more quickly thananyone else in her program, she completed her Ph.D. By then, she hadmarried a classmate, Aaron Yalow, who would be her husband for thenext 50 years. Through memoir and interviews with Yalow's professionaland biological families, it is clear that nothing was going to stopher from achieving her goals, and that this aggressive drive affectedthose close to her.

Without ever submitting a research grant proposal, Yalow and SolomonBerson, her second husband and research partner, were able to developthe radioimmunoassay (RIA), still a key component in biochemicalresearch.Yalow and Berson freely trained scientists from all overthe world in RIA and kept no secrets from the scientificcommunity. Such openness stands in stark contrast to today'ssecretive, competitive, grant-driven culture of academicresearch. Strauss's biography pays tribute to a remarkable scientistand offers a unique snapshot of science in the latter half of the 20thcentury.--Irwin Scot Hirsh ... Read more

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A must-read for anyone who thinks about society and culture.
As someone who is concerned with howgender influences our movement within society and our personal development, I found this book fascinating.To say nothing of the fact that this is one of very few books about a woman of intellect and emotional control of daunting proportions.As a woman physician, this book provided insight into my own development and future path.But as a woman, I hope men read this book.The insights go far beyond medicine, or careers, to the center of the gender issues that face us all.

A great book about a pioneering woman.
Rosalyn Yalow, from a poor uneducated family in the Bronx, and educated in the New York City public school system, became the first American educated woman to make it to the top in science or medicine.A nuclear physicist who never took a course in biology, she developed a method to identify and measure vanishingly small amounts of almost any substance in body fluids and tissues.As a result her work revolutionized virtually every aspect of medicine and biomedical science.What did it take to succeed in universities, hospitals, and scientific establishments that were completely dominated by men and male culture?What price did she pay?What barriers still stand in the way of women in these fields?This book speaks to these questions and more.It provides a searching and sensitive portrait of an overpowering woman who stood alone, fought for her place,and guided other women to follow their dreams and abilities.Yet the book is about human relationships; motherhood, marriage, partnership, and especially Yalow's relationship with herself.It is also about the ongoing struggle to achieve equal opportunity for all people.It reads like a novel, with a poetic feel for words and structure. Even the science is seamless and available to readers with little or no scientific background.Here is a great book about a great woman who is not an actress, not a heiress, not a figure in a political scandal, but a towering intellectual figure who changed the world.I couldn't put it down.Read it, then give it to your kids.Especially the young adult boys and girls. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 559 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from World of Microbiology and Immunology, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1904 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Covers the concepts, theories, discoveries, and pioneers in microbiology and immunology, using a mix of traditional academic and topical articles, this title addresses current ethical, legal, and social issues with special emphasis given to biological warfare and terrorism. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Chemistry: Foundations and Applications, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 606 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.

“Chemistry: Foundations and Application” is an accessible four-volume set that covers chemistry’s laws, processes, applications and sub-disciplines, reviews the history of the field, including modern research and practical applications, and includes biographies of scientists past and present. Varied topics that examine and explain chemistry's many branches, including inorganic, industrial, atmospheric and computational chemistry, and biotechnology allow students and general-interest readers alike to explore the myriad ways in which chemistry plays an important role in daily life.

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 3054 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Discusses radiation and its impact on society, and provides factual, scientifically based information on the interrelationship of society and radiation. Reviews the health effects of radiation through examinations of irradiated food, iodine-131 therapy, radon studies, and other related topics. Looks at the effects of exposure to large doses of radiation, including the cancer risks among atomic bomb survivors, the genetic effects of human exposure to ionizing radiation, and a health assessment of the Chernobyl accident. Includes an overview chapter by Rosalyn S. Yalow, recipient of the 1977 Nobel Prize in medicine for her work in developing radioimmunoassay techniques. ... Read more

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Kapitel: George de Hevesy, Otmar Schober, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Gynter Mödder, Andrew Newberg, Elmar Doppelfeld, Joseph Gilbert Hamilton, Michael E. Phelps, Uwe Haberkorn, Solomon Aaron Berson, Cuno Winkler, Samuel M. Seidlin, Asım Akin, Wolfgang Mohnike, Dieter Emrich. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: George Charles de Hevesy, Georg Karl von Hevesy, (1 August 1885 - 5 July 1966) was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study chemical processes such as in the metabolism of animals. Hevesy György was born in Budapest, Hungary to a Roman Catholic family of Hungarian Jewish decent, the fifth of eight children from his wealthy parents Lajos (Louis) Bischitz and Eugenia (Jenny) Schossberger. George grew up in Budapest and graduated high school in 1903 from Piarista Gimnázium. The family's name in the 1904 was Hevesy-Bischitz, and Hevesy later changed his own. De Hevesy began his studies in chemistry at the University of Budapest for one year, and at the Technical University of Berlin for several months, but changed to the University of Freiburg. There he came in contact with Ludwig Gattermann. In 1906 he started his Ph.D. thesis with Georg Franz Julius Meyer, acquiring his doctorate in physics in 1908. In 1908 Hevesy got a position at the ETH. When Richard Lorenz left for the University of Frankfurt and Richard Willstätter tried to convince him to stay in Zurich he decided to go to the University of Karlsruhe to work with Carl Bosch. To learn new methods, de Hevesy joined Rutherford's laboratory at the University of Manchester in 1911 where he met and became friends with Niels Bohr. In 1923 de Hevesy co-discovered hafnium (72Hf) (Latin Hafnia for "Copenhagen", the home town of Niels Bohr), with Dirk Coster. Mendeleev's periodic table in 1869 put the chemical elements into a logical system, however there was missing a chemical element...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Examines the lives of Barbara McClintock, Maria Mayer, Rosalyn Yalow, and Rita Levi-Montalcini, women scientists who won the Nobel Prize against extraordinary odds, in different fields and under different circumstances. ... Read more