Rosalyn Sussman Yalow graduated Hunter College as the first women to graduate in physics (Bauman et. al. 2011). She also led a way for acceptance and understanding of women’s role in science in America (Bauman et. al. 2011). She even inspired Mildred Dresselhous, who was a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and president and officer of many Associations including American Association for the Advancement of Science, to pursue the career she wanted (Bauman et. al. 2011). Rosalyn
After the editing process, we were to collectively make an informative video to spread awareness of the gender gap on one of the internet's most influential sites. Along with my partners Marissa and Sandhya, I chose to focus on editing Rosalyn Sussman Yalow’s Wikipedia page. Despite her contribution to the Radioisotope Tracing Technique, and the fact she was the first American-born woman to win the Nobel Prize, no one in our class recognized her name, nor her achievements. While inspecting