Gerty Theresa Cori
(
–
)
1896
1957
Washington University
;
St. Louis, MO
Biochemist; Educator
Elected
1953
Gerty Theresa Cori was an Austro-Hungarian-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 significant role in the “discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen.”
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