Rosalyn Sussman, the future Nobel laureate in Medicine, was born.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was born on July 19, 1921, in the Bronx, New York. As the daughter of Jewish immigrant parents, she grew up during the Great Depression. Her upbringing in a supportive intellectual environment fostered her early interest in science, eventually leading her to pursue physics at a time when women's participation in science was limited. This background set her on a path to groundbreaking scientific achievements.
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