Rosalyn Yalow — medicine (nobel) with roots in the Russian Empire
Rosalyn Yalow. Medical physicist, co-developer of radioimmunoassay, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977. Born Rosalyn Sussman in the Bronx in 1921. Her mother, Clara Zipper, came from Germany as a child; her father, Simon Sussman, was born on New York's Lower East Side to parents described as Ukrainian or Russian Jewish immigrants. Their names and town are not documented.
Tracing the roots — Father's parents described as Ukrainian/Russian Jewish immigrants (unnamed; town and sovereign not documented); mother born in Germany
Born Rosalyn Sussman in the Bronx in 1921. Her mother, Clara Zipper, came from Germany as a child; her father, Simon Sussman, was born on New York's Lower East Side to parents described as Ukrainian or Russian Jewish immigrants. Their names and town are not documented.
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Father's parents described as Ukrainian/Russian Jewish immigrants (unnamed; town and sovereign not documented); mother born in Germany. At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
A career defined by ambition
"The world cannot afford the loss of talents of half its people if we are to solve the many problems which beset us."