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The search seeks the exact word or phrase that you type, so if you donât find your choice, try searching for a keyword in your topic or recheck the spelling of a word or name. Cori, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Carl Ferdinand (1896-1984) and Cori, Gerty Theresa Radnitz (1896-1957), Czech-born American biochemists and Nobel laureates who were husband and wife. Both were born in Prague and received MD degrees from the German University of Prague in 1920, the year in which they were married. They moved to the United States in 1922 and became naturalized citizens in 1928. Carl Cori worked at the State Institute for Study of Malignant Diseases in Buffalo, New York, from 1922 to 1931, when he and Gerty Cori joined the faculty of Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. They received many honours, in most cases jointly. In 1947, for their research in enzymes the Coris shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with the Argentine physiologist Bernardo Alberto Houssay. They discovered the mechanism of the interconversion of sugar and glycogen (animal starch) and isolated and synthesized the enzyme involved, which they called phosphorylase. This enzyme, together with insulin and a hormone of the anterior pituitary gland, controls the reactions that produce diabetes mellitus. | |
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