Rosalyn Yalow, RIP
Jun. 2nd, 2011 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deirdreMany of you who go to conventions, especially on the east coast, will know Ben Yalow.
His mother, Rosalyn Yalow, was a Nobel-prize-winning scientist, one of 15 women who've wone said prize in the sciences (Physics, Chemistry, or Physiology/Medicine).
Here's her NY Times obit. Inspiring, especially for women.
If you are, or if you know, a type 2 diabetic, you should give particular thanks as received her Nobel prize for her work in that field.
My favorite part of the obit:
"Their early work met with resistance. Scientific journals initially refused to publish their discovery of insulin antibodies, a finding fundamental to radioimmunoassay. The discovery, in 1956, challenged the accepted understanding of the immune system; few scientists believed antibodies could recognize a molecule as small as insulin. Dr. Yalow and Dr. Berson had to delete a reference to antibodies before The Journal of Clinical Investigation accepted their paper, and Dr. Yalow did not forget the incident; she included the rejection letter as an exhibit in her Nobel lecture."
His mother, Rosalyn Yalow, was a Nobel-prize-winning scientist, one of 15 women who've wone said prize in the sciences (Physics, Chemistry, or Physiology/Medicine).
Here's her NY Times obit. Inspiring, especially for women.
If you are, or if you know, a type 2 diabetic, you should give particular thanks as received her Nobel prize for her work in that field.
My favorite part of the obit:
"Their early work met with resistance. Scientific journals initially refused to publish their discovery of insulin antibodies, a finding fundamental to radioimmunoassay. The discovery, in 1956, challenged the accepted understanding of the immune system; few scientists believed antibodies could recognize a molecule as small as insulin. Dr. Yalow and Dr. Berson had to delete a reference to antibodies before The Journal of Clinical Investigation accepted their paper, and Dr. Yalow did not forget the incident; she included the rejection letter as an exhibit in her Nobel lecture."