Gerty Cori

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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Gerty Cori appears in Vinony's Nobel Prize in Medicine collection — one of 233 entries. It also appears in Nobel Laureates.

Vinony's link graph records 654 inbound references to Gerty Cori, and connects out to Charles University, Carl Ferdinand Cori and National Academy of Sciences.

It is catalogued under topics including 1896 births, 1957 deaths and 20th-century American biochemists.

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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
Spouse: Carl Ferdinand Cori
Occupation: researcher
Employer: Washington University in St. Louis
Languages spoken: English language
Award: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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
member of: American Philosophical Society
cause of death: kidney failure
manner of death: natural causes
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
described at URL: www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/cori-gerty.pdf
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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