1921– American medical physicist who helped develop the technique of radioimmunoassay (RIA), which detects very small quantities of biologically important substances in body fluids.
Keywords: radioimmunoassay; RIA; insulin
Yalow, Rosalyn Sussman
Michael A Sutton, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002964
| Further Reading | |
| book Luft R and Yalow RS (1974) Radioimmunoassay: Methodology and Applications in Physiology and in Clinical Studies. Acton, MA: Publishing Sciences Group. | |
| book McMurray EJ (ed.) (1995) Notable Twentieth Century Scientists, vol. 4, pp. 2273–2276. New York: Gale Research. | |
| News (1977) Physics Today 30(12): 78–79. | |
| other Nobel e-Museum (2000) The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977. The Nobel Foundation. ePath www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1977 [Website of the Nobel Foundation.] | |
