the National Academy of Sciences in 1972. In 1975 Berson and Yalow received the AMA Scientific Achievement Award (Berson posthumously), and two years later Yalow received a Nobel Prize (which cannot be awarded posthumously) for their joint work on the radioimmunoassay. References External links J. E. Rall, "Solomon A. Berson", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (1990) American endocrinologists 1918 births 1972 deaths Military personnel from New York City Physicians from New York City Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Jewish American scientists New York University alumni Scientists from the Bronx 20th-century American Jews