In which year did Rosalyn Yalow pass away?
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Rosalyn Yalow, an American medical physicist and a Nobel laureate, passed away in 2011 at the age of 89. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1977 for developing the radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique, which revolutionized the field of medicine by enabling the measurement of hormones and other substances in the blood.
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