"She is from New York …

“She is from New York. She is Jewish. She is a woman.” These were the reasons (see Newsmakers, Science, 10 June, 2011) offered by a top US university for denying Rosalyn Yalow (1921-2011) a place in their graduate program some 60 years ago. Overcoming cultural, religious, and gender bias, she would eventually go on to earn a Ph.D. in 1945 and follow that with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1977. Dr. Yalow passed away on May 30.