<h2 class="ltx_title_subsection"></h2><h2 data-label="405891" class="ltx_title_subsection">8. Nobel Prize in Medicine (1977) awarded to Rosalind Yalow for: invention of the radioimmunoassay (RIA).</h2><div></div><blockquote><div><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/109/3/669.full">Rejection:</a>&nbsp;"For years after winning the Nobel Prize, Yalow proudly showed this rejection letter in her public presentations."</div></blockquote>