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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerty Cori has received more than 467,428 page views. Her biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Gerty Cori is the 44th most popular chemist (up from 46th in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 44th 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

Among chemists, Gerty Cori ranks 44 out of 602. Before her are Carl Bosch, Henri Moissan, August Kekulé, Valery Legasov, Adolf von Baeyer, and Adolf Butenandt. After her are Kurt Alder, Alfred Werner, Paul Sabatier, Friedrich Bergius, Frederick Sanger, and Arthur Harden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Gerty Cori ranks 15. Before her are Roman Jakobson, Paula Hitler, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Antonin Artaud, Trygve Lie, and Klement Gottwald. After her are Andrei Zhdanov, Leslie Groves, Milena Jesenská, Felix Steiner, Dziga Vertov, and Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. Among people deceased in 1957, Gerty Cori ranks 17. Before her are Wilhelm Reich, Arturo Toscanini, Oliver Hardy, Henry van de Velde, Constantin Brâncuși, and Gichin Funakoshi. After her are Gabriela Mistral, Walther Bothe, Richard E. Byrd, Irving Langmuir, Heinrich Otto Wieland, and Joseph McCarthy.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Gerty Cori ranks 49 out of 1,200. Before her are Bernard Bolzano (1781), Adolf Loos (1870), Madeleine Albright (1937), Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (1289), Ludvík Svoboda (1895), and Antonín Panenka (1948). After her are Josef Masopust (1931), Adalbert of Prague (955), Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (1271), Karel Gott (1939), Emil Hácha (1872), and Milena Jesenská (1896).

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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), Otto Wichterle (1913), Franz von Soxhlet (1848), Hans Tropsch (1889), Zdenko Hans Skraup (1850), and Jiří Drahoš (1949).

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