A physicist in biomedical investigation
OCT 01, 1979
There are many opportunities for collaborative efforts in physics and medicine; the radioimmunoassay, for example, was developed in one such effort.
DOI: 10.1063/1.2995239
What was involved in my transition from nuclear physicist to biomedical investigator and recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1977 for the development and application of radioimmunoassay? What is radioimmunoassay? In what way did physics have a role in the development of the concepts and methodology of radioimmunoassay? How did it begin?
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Rosalyn S. Yalow, Solomon A. Berson Research Laboratory, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Bronx, New York.
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