Gerty Cori

Gerty Cori

Gerty Theresa Cori (née Radnitz; August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957) 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".Cori was born in Prague (then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now the Czech Republic). Gerty was not a nickname, but rather she was named after an Austrian warship. Growing up at a time when women were marginalized in science 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 352,175 page views. Her biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Gerty Cori is the 61st most popular chemist (up from 65th in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 35th 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.