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Rosalyn Yalow, Nobel Laureate

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By Eugene Straus

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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.

On Sale
Jan 7, 2000
Page Count
294 pages
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-13
9780738202631

Eugene Straus

About the Author

Eugene Straus, M.D., is professor of medicine and chief of digestive diseases at the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn. He was co-chairman with Rosalyn Yalow of the Department of Clinical Sciences at Montefiore Medical Center. He lives in New York City.

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