CHEMIST

Carl Ferdinand Cori

1896 - 1984

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Carl Ferdinand Cori, ForMemRS (December 5, 1896 – October 20, 1984) 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 (animal starch) is broken down and resynthesized in the body for use as a store and source of energy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Ferdinand Cori has received more than 180,883 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Carl Ferdinand Cori is the 99th most popular chemist (up from 107th in 2019), the 69th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 77th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Czech Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Carl Ferdinand Cori ranks 99 out of 602. Before him are Vladimir Prelog, Leopold Ružička, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Katalin Karikó, Karl Ziegler, and Martin Heinrich Klaproth. After him are Felix Hoffmann, William Giauque, Stanford Moore, Paul Berg, Ernest Solvay, and Robert Robinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Carl Ferdinand Cori ranks 27. Before him are Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Eugenio Montale, Oswald Mosley, Donald Winnicott, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, and Buenaventura Durruti. After him are Italo Balbo, Ernst Udet, Anna Anderson, Erich Koch, Célestin Freinet, and Howard Hawks. Among people deceased in 1984, Carl Ferdinand Cori ranks 18. Before him are Alfred Kastler, Tigran Petrosian, Ed Gein, Ray Kroc, Stanislaw Ulam, and Martin Ryle. After him are Karl Wolff, Irwin Shaw, Sam Peckinpah, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Anna Anderson, and Truman Capote.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Carl Ferdinand Cori ranks 69 out of 1,200. Before him are Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787), Jan Masaryk (1886), Jaroslav Seifert (1901), Jerome of Prague (1379), Karl Kraus (1874), and Lída Baarová (1914). After him are Eugen Böhm von Bawerk (1851), Bohuslav Martinů (1890), Max Wertheimer (1880), Karl Hermann Frank (1898), Karel Schwarzenberg (1937), and Matthias Sindelar (1903).

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Among CHEMISTS In Czechia

Among chemists born in Czechia, Carl Ferdinand Cori ranks 2. Before him are Gerty Cori (1896). After him are Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890), Johann Josef Loschmidt (1821), Otto Wichterle (1913), Franz von Soxhlet (1848), Hans Tropsch (1889), Zdenko Hans Skraup (1850), and Jiří Drahoš (1949).

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