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Information trouvée : Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz, (August 15, 1896 October 26, 1957) was an American
biochemist born in Prague (then Austria-Hungary) who, together with her husband Carl
Ferdinand Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine in 1947 for their discovery of how glycogen (animal starch)
a derivative of glucose is broken down and resynthesized in the body, for use as
a store and source of energy.In 1947 Gerty Cori became the third woman and first
American woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, the previous recipients being Marie
Curie and Irène Joliot-Curie. The same year, she became a full professor of biochemistry
at Washington University, a post she held until her death in 1957.