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 ...
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.