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Gerty Cori with her husband and fellow-Nobelist, Carl Ferdinand Cori, in 1947. [1]Gerty Theresa Cori (née Radnitz; August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957 [2]) was a Bohemian-Austrian and 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 ...
Carl Ferdinand Cori, ForMemRS [1] (December 5, 1896 – October 20, 1984) was a Czech-American biochemist and pharmacologist. He, together with his wife Gerty Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay , received a Nobel Prize in 1947 for their discovery of how the glucose derivative glycogen (animal starch) is broken down and ...
Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896–1984). American biochemist at Washington University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who worked on glycogen. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1947). Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Gerty Cori (1896–1957). Czech-American biochemist at Washington University, known for glycogen research.
Cori is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It lies less than one crater diameter to the north of the crater Baldet . To the northeast is the crater Grissom .
Only in 1947, that the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was finally awarded to a woman, Gerty Cori, sharing with her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori. [8] Of the currently revealed female nominees, the physiologists Nettie Stevens , Frieda Robscheit-Robbins , Rosalind Franklin , Miriam Michael Stimson , Louise Pearce , Virginia Apgar , Hattie ...
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In 1947, Gerty Cori, a professor at the School of Medicine, became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Professors Carl and Gerty Cori became Washington University's fifth and sixth Nobel laureates for their discovery of how glycogen is broken down and resynthesized in the body. [4]
Bernardo Alberto Houssay (April 10, 1887 – September 21, 1971) was an Argentine physiologist.Houssay was a co-recipient of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering the role played by pituitary hormones in regulating the amount of glucose in animals, sharing the prize with Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Cori.