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
Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz
Born: 1896-08-15 in Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)
Gender: female
Field: Czech-American biochemist (1896–1957)
Biography
Gerty Theresa Cori 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 the catalytic conversion of glycogen".