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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 ...
Cori cycle. The Cori cycle (also known as the lactic acid cycle), named after its discoverers, Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Cori, [1] is a metabolic pathway in which lactate, produced by anaerobic glycolysis in muscles, is transported to the liver and converted to glucose, which then returns to the muscles and is cyclically metabolized back to lactate.
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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Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896–1984) Gerty Theresa Radnitz-Cori (1896–1957) Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen." (awarded together with Argentine physiologist Bernardo Alberto Houssay) [8] 1974 and 1982 Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987) Alva Reimer-Myrdal (1902–1986)
1947: Gerty Cori, first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; she shared the prize with Carl Ferdinand Cori and Bernardo Alberto Houssay. [77] [78] Although born in Prague, Gerty Cori is considered the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in medicine. [79] She had become a U.S. citizen in 1928. [80]
Gerty Cori was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; she shared the prize with Carl Ferdinand Cori and Bernardo Alberto Houssay. [108] [109] Although born in Prague, Gerty Cori is considered the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in medicine. [110] She had become a U.S. citizen in 1928. [111] 1948