The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947
Awarded on: 1947-10-23
"for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen"
Affiliations:
- Washington University – St. Louis, MO, USA
Carl Ferdinand Cori
Born: 1896-12-05 in Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)
Gender: male
Field: Czech Nobel prize laureate and scientist
Biography
Carl Ferdinand Cori, ForMemRS 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 is broken down and resynthesized in the body for use as a store and source of energy. In 2004, both Coris were designated a National Historic Chemical Landmark in recognition of their work that elucidated carbohydrate metabolism.