1997 Inductees
Fran AllenIBM Fellow, IBM 
Carol BartzExecutive Chairman of the Board, Autodesk 
Shaunna F. BlackVice President, Texas Instruments 
Pamela Meyer LopkerPresident and Chairman of the Board, QAD 
Marcia NeugebauerDistinguised visiting scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory 
ENIAC ProgrammersKathleen McNulty, Mauchly Antonelli, Jean Jennings Bartik, Frances Synder Holber, Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer, Frances Bilas Spence and Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum 
Donna ShirleyRetired, Manager, Mars Exploration Program 
Patty StonesiferChief Exective Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 
Patricia M. WallingtonPresident, CIO Associates, Sarasota, Florida 
Rosalyn S. YalowNobel Laureate, Previous Inductees |
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Rosalyn S. YalowNobel Laureate,Inducted in: 1997
Rosalyn Yalow is the second woman and the first American-born and -educated woman to win a Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. The award was made in 1977 for the discovery of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a technique that allows scientists to measure minute amounts of many different substances in the blood by tagging them with radioactive tracers. RIA's ability to measure tiny amounts of substances has made more difference in medical research than any technique since the X-ray. This method is used in thousands of laboratories around the world to measure hundreds of substances of biologic interest in blood and other body fluids. Today, RIA is used to measure hormones, vitamins, enzymes, toxins and other substances that prior to this invention were too small for physicians to detect.
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