Gerty Theresa Cori
Gerty Theresa Cori (Prague August 15th 1896 - October 26th 1957), born Radnitz, is an American Biochimiste of origin Austro-Hungarian. It divides the Nobel Prize of physiology or medicine 1947 with her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori and the Argentinian Physiologiste Bernardo Houssay for their discovery of the Glycogène, a Polymère of the Glucose allowing the living beings to store energy, and their description of the Cycle of Cori, which allows the recycling of the Lactic acid (produced anaerobic Respiration) in glucose via glycogen.
It is the third woman prize winner of a Nobel Prize after Marie Curie-Skłodowska and Irene Joliot-Curie.
In spite of profitable research - it publishes 11 articles only and nearly 50 with her husband - it obtains only posts of assistant until 1946
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