1977 – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for development of radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique.

* Yalow with collaborator Solomon Berson developed radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique, a method for measuring concentrations of substances in blood * Radioisotope tracing technique that allows the measurement of tiny quantities of various biological substances in human blood, as well as a multitude of other aqueous fluids * Originally used to study insulin levels in diabetes mellitus, the technique has since been applied to hundreds of other substances * Includes hormones, vitamins and enzymes, all which had been present in quantities or concentrations that were previously too small to detect * Without the contributions of Yalow to the work of accurate hormone measurement, it would be impossible to diagnose various hormone-related conditions and endocrine diseases * Called "the Mother of Endocrinology."

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