Rosalyn Yalow — medicine (nobel) with roots in the Russian Empire
Rosalyn Yalow was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1977 for developing radioimmunoassay (RIA) — a technique that revolutionised medical diagnostics by enabling the measurement of tiny concentrations of biological substances in the blood. It is now used in virtually every clinical laboratory worldwide.
Tracing the roots — Germany / Ukraine
Born in New York in 1921, her parents were the children of German and Ukrainian Jewish immigrants (Russian Empire) who settled in New York's South Bronx. Growing up in the immigrant Jewish community of the Bronx and facing discrimination both as a woman and as a Jewish scientist, she built her career at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital entirely outside the mainstream academic establishment.
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Germany / Ukraine. At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
A career defined by ambition
"The world cannot afford the loss of talents of half its people if we are to solve the many problems which beset us."