Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Quotes

By seventh grade, I was committed to mathematics.
Everything's a real passion to me - my children, my family, my work, travel. I don't play tennis, I don't play music, but I have a great time.
For the past 30 years, I have been committed to the development and application of radioisotopic methodology to analyze the fine structure of biologic systems.
I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science.
I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.
I was an early reader, reading even before kindergarten, and since we did not have books in my home, my older brother, Alexander, was responsible for our trip every week to the public library to exchange books already read for new ones to be read.
I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system.
I worked for 22 years with Sol Berson.
If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors.
In the late '30's when I was in college, physics - and in particular, nuclear physics - was the most exciting field in the world.
Infectious diseases have become less prominent as causes of death and disability in regions of improved sanitation and adequate supplies of antibiotics.
Initially, new ideas are rejected. Later they become dogma if you're right. And if you're really lucky, you can publish your rejections as part of your Nobel presentation.
Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.
My point of view is if you want to move up, examine first yourself.
Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that it was fortunate that I chose to do acceptable things, for if I had chosen otherwise, no one could have deflected me from my path.
Some are very hostile if mistakes are pointed out. I'm not. If I make a mistake, I make a mistake.
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. In the past, few women have tried, and even fewer have succeeded.
The only difference between men and women in science is that the women have the babies. This makes it more difficult for women in science but should not be seen as a barrier, for it is merely another challenge to be overcome.
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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
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19 July, 1921
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30 May, 2011
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