Gerty Theresa Cori, born Gerty Radnitz in Prague in 1896 and died in 1957, was a Czech and American biochemist who studied carbohydrate metabolism together with her husband, Carl Ferdinand Cori. Their research identified glucose 1-phosphate, known as the Cori ester, and worked out the Cori cycle, the pathway by which glycogen breaks down into lactic acid in muscle and is resynthesized into glucose in the liver. In 1947 she became the first woman awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing the honor with her husband and with Bernardo Houssay, and was the third woman overall to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field.
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Carl Cori, Scientists Spouses and lifelong research partners; shared the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bernardo Houssay for their work on glycogen metabolism.
Source Carl Ferdinand Cori (Wikipedia)
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Gerty Theresa Cori was a Czech 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 the catalytic conversion of glycogen".
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fields = [[Biochemistry]]
- Wikipedia 'Gerty Cori': citizenship Austria-Hungary; checked 2026-09-27
- Wikipedia 'Gerty Cori': citizenship Czechoslovakia; checked 2026-09-27
- Wikipedia 'Gerty Cori': citizenship United States naturalized; checked 2026-09-27
View the Source Carl Ferdinand Cori (Wikipedia)
WikipediaAssociated With: Carl Cori, REST summary extract, second sentenceQuote, Associated With: Carl Cori, REST summary extract, second sentence
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 is broken down and resynthesized in the body for use as a store and source of energy.
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