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Gerty Cori was a biochemist who was the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in for Science..
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori and her husband, Dr. Carl Cori, were the first married couple to receive a Nobel Prize in science.
Today in Mighty Girl history, Gerty Cori -- the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Medicine and the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in a.
Gerty Cori was only the third woman ever to win a Nobel Prize, and was the first woman in America to do so.
Gerty Cori was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1896, to Otto Radnitz and Martha Neustadt. Her uncle, a professor of pediatrics, encouraged her to attend medical school, and she was admitted to the German University of Prague, where there were only a few female students.
She graduated with her M.D. degree in 1920, along with her classmate Carl Cori. They married soon after graduation, and were hired to work in clinics in Vienna.
Gerty Cori -- the Czech-American biochemist whose pioneering research on carbohydrate metabolism paved the way for understanding and treating diabetes.Realizing that Europe was heading for war, they began applying for work overseas. In 1922, they moved to Buffalo, New York, where Carl took a position at the State Institute for the Study of Malignant Diseases (later the Roswell Park Memorial Institute), and Gerty Cori was hired as an assistant pathologist.
While at Roswell