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 ...

Even as Marie Curie and her husband Pierre and their daughter Irène and her husband Frederic Joliot-Curie were awarded joint Nobel Prizes, Gerty and Carl Cori were discouraged from working together.