Gerty Theresa Cori

Wednesday, January 01, 1947

Gerty Theresa Cori was born in Austria-Hungary (modern day Czech Republic) in 1896. In 1920, she earned her Doctorate in Medicine at the German University of Prague (now part of Charles University). Two years later, in 1922, Cori immigrated to the United States. Cori was a biochemist who developed the “Cori Cycle” of carbohydrate metabolism in the body. She and her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori won the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947.