1. Gerty Theresa Cori was a Bohemian-Austrian and American biochemist who in 1947 was the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for her role in the "discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen".
Gerty Cori continued her early interest in medical research, collaborating in the laboratory with Carl.
Gerty Cori published research coauthored with her husband, as well as publishing singly.
Gerty Cori's husband insisted on continuing their collaboration, though he was discouraged from doing so by the institutions that employed him.
In 1957, Gerty Cori died after a ten-year struggle with myelosclerosis.
Gerty Cori remained active in the research laboratory until the end of her life.
Gerty Cori received recognition for her achievements through multiple awards and honors.
Gerty Cori was born Gerty Theresa Radnitz into a Jewish family in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary in 1896.
Gerty Cori's father, Otto Radnitz, was a chemist who became manager of sugar refineries after inventing a successful method for refining sugar.
Gerty Cori's mother, Martha, a friend of Franz Kafka, was a culturally sophisticated woman.
Gerty Cori was tutored at home before enrolling in a lyceum for girls, and at the age of 16, she decided she wanted to be a medical doctor.
Gerty Cori was admitted to the medical school of the Karl-Ferdinands-Universitat in Prague in 1914, an unusual achievement for women at that time.
Gerty Cori converted to Catholic Christianity, enabling her and Carl to marry in the Catholic Church.
Carl was drafted into the Austrian army and served during World War I Life was difficult after the war, and Gerty developed dry eye caused by severe malnutrition due to food shortages.
Gerty Cori continued to work with Carl and was nevertheless kept on at the institute.
Gerty Cori was constantly in the laboratory, where we two worked alone.
Gerty Cori was informed during one university interview that it was considered "un-American" for a married couple to work together.
Washington University's Chancellor, Arthur Compton, made a special allowance for Gerty Cori to hold a position there, ignoring the university's nepotism rules.
Gerty Cori waited thirteen years before she attained the same rank as her husband.
Gerty Cori studied glycogen storage disease, identifying at least four forms, each related to a particular enzymatic defect.
Gerty Cori was the first to show that a defect in an enzyme can cause a human genetic disease.
Gerty and Carl Cori collaborated on most of their work, including that which won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen".
Gerty Cori was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Gerty Cori was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1953.
Gerty Cori was the fourth woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Gerty Cori was appointed by President Harry S Truman as board member of the National Science Foundation, a position she held until her death.
Gerty Cori was a member of the American Society of Biological Chemists, the American Chemical Society and the American Philosophical Society.
Brilliant and quick-witted, Gerty Cori was a superb experimentalist as well as a perfectionist.
Gerty Cori was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1998.
Gerty Cori was honored by a US Postal Service stamp in April 2008.
In November 2016, NERSC's Gerty Cori ranked 5th on the TOP500 list of world's most powerful high-performance computers.
Just before winning the Nobel prize, while they were on a mountain climbing trip, the Coris learned that Gerty Cori was ill with myelosclerosis, a fatal disease of the bone marrow.
Gerty Cori struggled for ten years with the illness while continuing her scientific work; only in the final months did she let up.
Gerty Cori was survived by her husband and their only child, Tom Cori, who married the daughter of conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly.
Gerty Cori continued to work there until his death in 1984, aged 87.