Biochemist
Theresa Cori Gerty was born in Prague in 1896. She was a well-known biochemist, first teaching at Washington University School of Medicine.
She married Carl F. Cori and together they discovered an ester that establishes the first step for the transformation of glycogen to glucose. This led them to formulate Cori's cycle by which liver glycogen is converted to blood glucose and from it to muscle glycogen.
In 1947 Theresa and Carl won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for their important research, making Theresa Cori the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize. This was not the only work she did, she published papers on carbohydrates, metabolism and enzyme functions in animal tissue in the Journal of biological chemistry.
She died in Sant Luois in 1957.
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