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Gerty Cori

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Also known as Gerty Theresa Cori, Gerty T. Cori, Gerty Theresa Radnitz

Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist (1896–1957)

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Gerty Cori was born on August 15, 1896. She is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Medicine collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

Cori received one Nobel Prize.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1947

    “for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Therese
Gender
female
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Prague
Place of death
St. Louis
Occupation
researcher
Languages spoken
English language
Field of work
medicine
Image
Carl and Gerty Cori in the lab Signed PP2009.033.002.jpg
Residence
United States
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Commons category
Gerty Cori
date of birth
1896-08-15
date of death
1956-10-26
cause of death
kidney failure
manner of death
natural causes
birth name
Gerty Theresa Radnitz
interested in
biochemistry
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Encyclopedic overview

Gerty Cori with her husband and fellow-Nobelist, Carl Ferdinand Cori, in 1947.

Gerty Theresa Cori (née Radnitz; August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957) 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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