Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori made history as the first woman in America to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or ... uncovered the Cori cycle, explaining how glucose is metabolized in the body.

A Nobel Prize, of course. Such was the case for Hans Krebs, the biochemist who nabbed the award in 1953 for discovering the citric acid cycle, or “Krebs cycle”—the cellular pathway that converts ...