Dr. Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori and Carl Ferdinand Cori in the Lab

Dr. Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori and Carl Ferdinand Cori in the Lab

Biochemist Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896-1957) and her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896-1984) were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1947 for their work on how the human body metabolizes sugar.

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