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Gerty Theresa Cori (née Radnitz; August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957) was an Austrian-American biochemist who in 1947 was the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for her role in the "discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen".
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori and her husband, Dr. Carl Cori, were the first married couple to receive a Nobel Prize in science. Gerty Cori was only the third woman ever to win a Nobel Prize, and was the first woman in America to do so. Gerty Cori was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1896, to Otto Radnitz and Martha Neustadt.
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Gerty Cori uncovered the process of cellular energy storage and release, answering one of the most fundamental questions about how the human body works. In so doing, she and her husband and lifelong research partner, Carl, transformed the study of biology, proving that the clarity of molecular chemistry could and should be applied to the opaque ...
Carl Cori and Gerty Cori were American biochemists, a husband-and-wife team whose discovery of a phosphate-containing form of the simple sugar glucose, and its universal importance to carbohydrate metabolism, led to an understanding of hormonal influence on the interconversion of sugars and
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Learn about the life and achievements of Gerty Cori, the first American woman Nobel laureate in science, who discovered the Cori cycle of sugar metabolism with her husband Carl. Find out how she overcame gender discrimination and contributed to diabetes research and education.
Aug 15, 2013 · Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947. Born: 15 August 1896, Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) Died: 26 October 1957, St. Louis, MO, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA.
