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Internet, http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/l, 13-03-2005 : Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz, (August 15, 1896 October 26, 1957) was an American biochemist born in Prague (then Austria-Hungary) who, together with her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947 for their discovery of how glycogen (animal starch) a derivative of glucose is broken down and resynthesized in the body, for use as a store and source of energy.In 1947 Gerty Cori became the third woman and first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, the previous recipients being Marie Curie and Irène Joliot-Curie. The same year, she became a full professor of biochemistry at Washington University, a post she held until her death in 1957.
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Cori, Gerty Theresa (1896-1957)
Radnitz, Gerty Theresa
Cori
Gerty Theresa
Gerty Theresa Cori
1896-08-15
1957-10-26
Biochimiste, Nobel 1947
Enzymes and metabolism : a collection of papers dedicated to Carl F. and Gerty T. Cori on the occasion of their 60th birthday / Amsterdam : Elsevier Pub. Co. , 1956
Cori, Gerty Theresa (1896-1957).