An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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  • 2578.28

Immunosassay of endogenous plasma insulin in man.

J. clin. Invest., 39, 1157-75, 1960.

First radioimmunoassay of a hormone, a test capable of estimating nonogram or even picogram quantities.

In 1977 Yalow received half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones." The other half was awarded to Roger Guillemin and Andrew V. Schally "for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain." 



Subjects: ENDOCRINOLOGY, IMMUNOLOGY › Immunization, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
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