FIRST - American Woman Nobel Laureate
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Star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame honoring Carl and Gerty Cori.
Waymark Code: WM5BKD
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 12/13/2008
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Text of Star and Plaque:
Carl & Gerty Cory
Born December 5, 1896 and August 15, 1896
Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Theresa Radnitz earned medical degrees from
the German University of Prague in 1920 and married later that year. After
they joined the Washington University School of Medicine in 1931, their
discovery of the mechanism for blood glucose regulation earned them the Nobel
Prize in 1947. Gerty Cori was the first American woman to be so honored.
In addition, six eventual Nobel Laureates received training in their laboratory.
Carl Cori said of their remarkable collaboration: "Our efforts have been largely
complementary, and one without the other would not have gone so far..."
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