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Gerty Cori

1896 - 1957

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Gerty Theresa Cori (née Radnitz; August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957) 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". Cori was born in Prague, the capital of Bohemia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Growing up at a time when women were marginalized and allowed few educational opportunities, she gained admittance to medical school, where she met her future husband Carl Ferdinand Cori in an anatomy class. Upon their graduation in 1920, they married. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gerty Cori is the 68th most popular chemist (down from 44th in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 49th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Chemist.

Gerty Cori was a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1947. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She was most famous for her research on the metabolism of glycogen, which is the storage form of glucose in the body.

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Among chemists, Gerty Cori ranks 68 out of 602. Before her are Norman Haworth, John Howard Northrop, Ilya Prigogine, Leopold Ružička, Wendell Meredith Stanley, and Henry Hallett Dale. After her are Vladimir Prelog, Gertrude B. Elion, Dorothy Hodgkin, William Giauque, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, and Karl Ziegler.

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Among people born in 1896, Gerty Cori ranks 12. Before her are André Breton, Imre Nagy, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Tristan Tzara, Roman Jakobson, and Antonin Artaud. After her are Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Robert S. Mulliken, Klement Gottwald, Trygve Lie, and Andrei Zhdanov. Among people deceased in 1957, Gerty Cori ranks 13. Before her are Christian Dior, Humphrey Bogart, Johannes Stark, Nikos Kazantzakis, Constantin Brâncuși, and Walther Bothe. After her are Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Arturo Toscanini, Wilhelm Reich, Gichin Funakoshi, Oliver Hardy, and Heinrich Otto Wieland.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Gerty Cori ranks 39 out of 1,200. Before her are Leoš Janáček (1854), Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907), Emil Zátopek (1922), Hans Kelsen (1881), Max Brod (1884), and Ottokar II of Bohemia (1233). After her are Peter Grünberg (1939), Jan Palach (1948), Miloš Zeman (1944), Bernard Bolzano (1781), Klement Gottwald (1896), and Karl Kautsky (1854).

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Among CHEMISTS In Czechia

Among chemists born in Czechia, Gerty Cori ranks 1. After her are Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896), Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890), Johann Josef Loschmidt (1821), Franz von Soxhlet (1848), Otto Wichterle (1913), Hans Tropsch (1889), Zdenko Hans Skraup (1850), and Jiří Drahoš (1949).

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