stroganoffed

[Amy West]

Yes, and my apologies for my error and my thanks to both you and Dan for
correcting it. When my oldest was in 6th grade, I spotted a kids'
biography of her in his classroom and stood there and read it during the
open house, which only makes me regret my errors more.

---Amy West

On 4/3/13 12:03 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date:    Tue, 2 Apr 2013 16:52:13 -0400
> From:    "Joel S. Berson"<Berson at ATT.NET>
> Subject: Re: stroganoffed
>
> At 4/2/2013 09:05 AM, Amy West wrote:
>> >I was told an anecdote about Rosemary Yallow, a Nobel Prize winner in
>> >medicine. (We in the science fiction fan community know her son Ben
>> >Yallow.) Anyhoo, a friend -- a woman food scientist who lived and worked
>> >in Natick (US Army Labs) -- told me that the day that Rosemary Yallow's
>> >prize was announced the headline in the "local paper" (it's not clear to
>> >me which one it was) was "Local Housewife Makes Good."
> I assume Amy means
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalyn_Sussman_Yalow>Rosalyn Sussman
> Yalow (1921-2011), 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for
> development of the
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioimmunoassay>radioimmunoassay (RIA)
> technique".

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