Dr. Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori made history as the first woman in America to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947. Her groundbreaking research with her husband, Dr. Carl Cori ...

There are over 38 million people with diabetes in the U.S. They owe their treatment to the pioneering work of Gerty Cori, and her husband. Although strongly admonished that she was impeding her ...

With 2020 Nobel prizes going so far to Andrea Ghez for physics, ... Both are credited for development of the Cori cycle, an essential part of metabolism. Bettmann/Getty Images Maria Goeppert-Mayer ...

Cori received many accolades throughout her career, solidifying her rightful place as a pioneer in the field of biochemistry. 2 In addition to becoming the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize ...

They shared the 1947 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for this work. ... They described this Cori Cycle in 1929. In 1947 the Coris discovered that Gerty had myelosclerosis, ...

Cori received many accolades throughout her career, solidifying her rightful place as a pioneer in the field of biochemistry. 2 In addition to becoming the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize ...

Physiology or medicine was the third prize area Alfred Nobel mentioned in his will laying out his wishes for the Nobel Prize. In 2024, the prize came with an award of 11 million Swedish krona ...

Great Women of Science: Gerty Cori, First American Woman to Win Nobel Prize in Science Even as Marie Curie and her husband Pierre and their daughter Irène and her husband Frederic Joliot-Curie were ...