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Gerty Cori

Austrian biochemist

Born on: August 15, 1896
Died on: October 26, 1957
Aged: 61 years 72 days (734 months)
Nationality: Austrian-Hungarian
Birth Sign: Leo

 

Gerty Cori

Gerty Theresa Cori was a Czech 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".


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