Rosalyn Yalow - Scientist With A Fighting Spirit
Rosalyn Yalow - Scientist With A Fighting Spirit

Author: Dr. Chanchal Kumar Manna

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2023-11-08

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, the second American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, born in 1921 in New York city, USA, of poor Jewish parents, Clara and Simon Sussman. Due to her talents, firm determination, she overcome many difficulties in obtaining her Ph.D. degree in Physics in 1945, from Illinois University, USA. Although she was a student of Nuclear Physics but she made profound contribution in the field of Physiological Sciences. With the joint collaboration of another talented Physician, Solomon Berson, they did ground breaking research for a period of 22 years and developed an authentic technique known as radioimmunoassay, RIA., for the treatment of Type II diabetes and other critical diseases, In 1977, Yalow received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her and Berson’s development of RIA. Yalow received the award without Berson, who died in 1972. Despite her outstanding scientific career, Prof. Yalow incorporated her home life wherever she could in her work life. She married Yaron Yalow, fellow colleague, had two wonderful children, Benjamin and Elenna and had a Laboratory for the expression of her ideas in the Scientific World. She was not a feminist but emphasized the need of women Scientist to come forward and pursue advanced education and research.

Sociological Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts

Author: Leo P. Chall

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13:

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CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

The Cambridge History of Medicine
The Cambridge History of Medicine

Author: Roy Porter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-06-05

Total Pages: 11

ISBN-13: 0521864267

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Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, 'The Cambridge History of Medicine' surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology of key developments and events.

Bruno Latour in Pieces
Bruno Latour in Pieces

Author: Henning Schmidgen

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2014-10-15

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0823263711

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Bruno Latour stirs things up. Latour began as a lover of science and technology, co-founder of actor-network theory, and philosopher of a modernity that had “never been modern.” In the meantime he is regarded not just as one of the most intelligent—and also popular—exponents of science studies but also as a major innovator of the social sciences, an exemplary wanderer who walks the line between the sciences and the humanities. This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the Latourian oeuvre, from his early anthropological studies in Abidjan (Ivory Coast), to influential books like Laboratory Life and Science in Action, and his most recent reflections on an empirical metaphysics of “modes of existence.” In the course of this enquiry it becomes clear that the basic problem to which Latour’s work responds is that of social tradition, the transmission of experience and knowledge. What this empirical philosopher constantly grapples with is the complex relationship of knowledge, time, and culture.