Rosalyn Yalow dies at 89; Nobel winner helped revolutionize medical diagnostics
Monday, June 6, 2011 - 00:30
in Health & Medicine
Physicist Rosalyn S. Yalow, overcoming resistance in a field dominated by men, helped develop a groundbreaking new blood testing method that led to a greater understanding of diabetes and a host of other diseases.Physicist Rosalyn S. Yalow, who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the development of a medical diagnostic test that revolutionized patient care and led to a new understanding of diabetes and a host of other diseases, died May 30 in the Bronx, N.Y. She was 89. No cause of death was announced.