"Initially, new ideas are rejected. Later they become dogma, if you’re right. And if you’re really lucky you can publish your rejections as part of your Nobel presentation."

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InventorsWomen academics from the United StatesNobel laureates from the United StatesPhysicists from the United StatesNobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine
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From a speech given by Rosalyn Yalow to a group of school children approximately five years after being awarded the Nobel Prize, as quoted by the New York Times, June 2, 2011.