1921 - 2011
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (July 19, 1921 – May 30, 2011) was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) for development of the radioimmunoassay technique. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rosalyn Sussman Yalow has received more than 277,527 page views. Her biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Rosalyn Sussman Yalow is the 126th most popular physicist (up from 183rd in 2019), the 520th most popular biography from United States (up from 816th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Physicist.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was a medical physicist and physiologist. She won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1977 for her work in developing the radioimmunoassay technique, which is used to measure the concentration of hormones and other substances in the blood.
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Among physicists, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow ranks 126 out of 717. Before her are Walter Houser Brattain, C. F. Powell, Pavel Cherenkov, Owen Chamberlain, Leo Szilard, and Isidor Isaac Rabi. After her are Arno Allan Penzias, Percy Williams Bridgman, Charles Glover Barkla, Hans Georg Dehmelt, Maurice Wilkins, and Ernest Lawrence.
1902 - 1987
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 120
1903 - 1969
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 121
1904 - 1990
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 122
1920 - 2006
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 123
1898 - 1964
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 124
1898 - 1988
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 125
1921 - 2011
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 126
1933 - 2024
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 127
1882 - 1961
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 128
1877 - 1944
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 129
1922 - 2017
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 130
1916 - 2004
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 131
1901 - 1958
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 132
Among people born in 1921, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow ranks 23. Before her are Sophie Scholl, Simone Signoret, Gunnar Nordahl, Paulo Freire, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and Peter Ustinov. After her are Aaron T. Beck, Deborah Kerr, Satyajit Ray, John Glenn, Vasily Stalin, and Lotfi A. Zadeh. Among people deceased in 2011, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow ranks 19. Before her are Wangari Maathai, Sócrates, Joe Frazier, Annie Girardot, Ágota Kristóf, and Ramiz Alia. After her are Flórián Albert, Gary Moore, Rudolf Mössbauer, Dennis Ritchie, Willard Boyle, and Sidney Lumet.
1921 - 1943
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 17
1921 - 1985
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 18
1921 - 1995
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 19
1921 - 1997
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 20
1921 - 1990
HPI: 68.11
Rank: 21
1921 - 2004
HPI: 68.10
Rank: 22
1921 - 2011
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 23
1921 - 2021
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 24
1921 - 2007
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 25
1921 - 1992
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 26
1921 - 2016
HPI: 65.44
Rank: 27
1921 - 1962
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 28
1921 - 2017
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 29
1940 - 2011
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 13
1954 - 2011
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 14
1944 - 2011
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 15
1931 - 2011
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 16
1935 - 2011
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 17
1924 - 2011
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 18
1921 - 2011
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 19
1941 - 2011
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 20
1952 - 2011
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 21
1929 - 2011
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 22
1941 - 2011
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 23
1924 - 2011
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 24
1924 - 2011
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 25
Among people born in United States, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow ranks 520 out of 18,182. Before her are Kary Mullis (1944), Richard Kiel (1939), George R. R. Martin (1948), William Alfred Fowler (1911), Peter Fonda (1940), and Betty White (1922). After her are Irving Langmuir (1881), George Peppard (1928), James Coburn (1928), Harper Lee (1926), Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811), and Ralph Lauren (1939).
1944 - 2019
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 514
1939 - 2014
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 515
1948 - Present
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 516
1911 - 1995
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 517
1940 - 2019
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 518
1922 - 2021
HPI: 66.24
Rank: 519
1921 - 2011
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 520
1881 - 1957
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 521
1928 - 1994
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 522
1928 - 2002
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 523
1926 - 2016
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 524
1811 - 1896
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 525
1939 - Present
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 526
Among physicists born in United States, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow ranks 12. Before her are Clinton Davisson (1881), John Bardeen (1908), Arthur Compton (1892), Joseph Henry (1797), Kip Thorne (1940), and Owen Chamberlain (1920). After her are Percy Williams Bridgman (1882), Ernest Lawrence (1901), Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839), Robert Coleman Richardson (1937), Ben Roy Mottelson (1926), and Martin Lewis Perl (1927).
1881 - 1958
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 6
1908 - 1991
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 7
1892 - 1962
HPI: 68.51
Rank: 8
1797 - 1878
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 9
1940 - Present
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 10
1920 - 2006
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 11
1921 - 2011
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 12
1882 - 1961
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 13
1901 - 1958
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 14
1839 - 1903
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 15
1937 - 2013
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 16
1926 - 2022
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 17
1927 - 2014
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 18