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Radioimmunoassay: A Probe for Fine Structure of Biologic Systems
Author(s) -
YALOW ROSALYN S.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.934
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1365-3083
pISSN - 0300-9475
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3083.1992.tb02828.x
Subject(s) - citation , history , library science , computer science
Toprimitiveman the sky was wonderful, mysterious and awesome but he eould not even dream of what was within the golden disk or silver points of light so far beyond his reach. The telescope, the spectroscope, the radiotelescope all the tools and paraphernalia of modern science have acted as detailed probes to enable man to discover, to analyse and hence better to understand the inner contents and fine structure of these celestial objects. Man himself is a myslerious object and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia. Becquerel. the Curies and the Joliol-Curies with their discovery of natural and artificial radioactivity and Hevesy, who pioneered in the application of radioisotopes to the study of chemical processes, were the scientific progenitors of my career. For the past .̂ 0 years I have been committed to the development and application of radioisotopic metholdology to analyse the fine structure of biologic systems. From 1950 until his untimely death in 1972. Dr Solomon Berson was joined with me in this scientific adventure and together we gave birth to and nurtured through its infancy radioimmunoassay. a