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Gerty Cori

1896 - 1957

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Gerty Theresa Cori (née Radnitz; August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957) was an Austrian-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, back then 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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerty Cori has received more than 449,502 page views. Her biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Gerty Cori is the 46th most popular chemist (up from 61st in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 53rd 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 46 out of 509. Before her are Henrik Dam, Ilya Prigogine, Frederick Soddy, Victor Grignard, Theodor Svedberg, and William Crookes. After her are Paul Karrer, Joseph Black, Francis William Aston, Tu Youyou, Julius Lothar Meyer, and Paul Sabatier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Gerty Cori ranks 17. Before her are Antonin Artaud, Eugenio Montale, Trygve Lie, Klement Gottwald, Andrei Zhdanov, and Paula Hitler. After her are Oswald Mosley, Felix Steiner, Milena Jesenská, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Dziga Vertov, and Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. Among people deceased in 1957, Gerty Cori ranks 18. Before her are Gichin Funakoshi, Arturo Toscanini, Constantin Brâncuși, Johannes Stark, Henry van de Velde, and Walther Bothe. After her are Gabriela Mistral, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Irving Langmuir, Alfred Döblin, Joseph McCarthy, and Curzio Malaparte.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Gerty Cori ranks 44 out of 973. Before her are Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907), Jan Palach (1948), Emil Zátopek (1922), Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (1289), Madeleine Albright (1937), and Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (1271). After her are Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Emil Hácha (1872), Václav Klaus (1941), Josef Masopust (1931), Bernard Bolzano (1781), and Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein (1940).

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Among CHEMISTS In Czechia

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

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