Yalow received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1977 for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones. (That year, the prize was split in half; the other half went to Roger Guillemen and Andrew Schally for discoveries related to the brain's production of peptide hormones.) An unshared Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine went to McClintock in 1983 in recognition of her discovery of transposable genetic elements, made 35 years earlier while conducting gene experiments in maize. McClintock died in 1992. In 1988, Elion was awarded a Nobel in physiology or medicine (jointly with George H. Hitchings and Sir James Black) for research that led to the discovery of important drug therapies for leukemia, malaria, cancer, and heart disease, and to prevent transplant rejection.
AWIS will also sponsor a reception during the AAAS meeting to honor and recognize women winners of the Nobel Prize and the National Medal ...
