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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow — Age & Birthday

Born: 19 July 1921 · Died: 30 May 2011 · Age at death: 89

How old was Rosalyn Sussman Yalow when she died?

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow died aged 89. She was born on 19 July 1921 and died on 30 May 2011.

Medical physicist who developed the radioimmunoassay technique for measuring hormones

Did you know?She was only the second woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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 technique.

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