Mayo Clinic Proceedings, August 1st, 2000
Gerty CoriNobel Laureate in Medicine or Physiology
Gerty T. Cori won the 1947 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology for her work on the metabolism of glycogen. She was the third woman to receive the Nobel Prize in science, the first 2 being the famous chemist Marie Curie (1867-1934) and her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie (18971956). Gerty shared the prize with her husband, Carl Cori (1896-1984), and an Argentine physiologist, Bernardo A. Houssay (1887-1971). The Coris determined the important metabolic relationship between glucose and glycogen. They crystallized the enzyme phosphorylase, synthes...
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