biography
| name: |
Cori, Carl F(erdinand)
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pronunciation:
[koree]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1896–1984)
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| biography:
| Biochemist, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He studied medicine at Prague University, became a pharmacology assistant in Vienna (1920–2), then emigrated with his wife, Gerty, to work at the State Institute for the Study of Malignant Disease in Buffalo, New York (1922–31). He moved to Washington University, St Louis (1931–66), where they collaborated on investigating the biochemistry of the glucose-glycogen cycle and determining the mechanism of action of insulin. They became the third husband-and-wife team to receive a Nobel Prize when they shared (with Bernardo Houssay) the 1947 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their research on glucose metabolism and its requisite enzymes. After Gerty's death (1957), Carl remarried and continued an active teaching and research career at both Washington University and Harvard Medical School (1966–84). |
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