Nobelists Help Celebrate AWIS Anniversary

Women Nobel Prize winners will help the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) kick off its 25th anniversary celebration in February. Laureates Rosalyn Yalow and Gertrude Elion will speak at a symposium titled "Women Nobelists: Their Work, Their Lives, and Their Impact on Science and Technology" at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), slated for February 8-12 in Baltimore. Also presenting at the symposium, scheduled for the afternoon of February

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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 ...

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