Alphabetical Index
Index by Year of Birth
Nobel Prize
laureates
Gerty Cori
1947 Physiology or Medicine
* 1896 in Prague
+ 1957 in St. Louis, Missouri
Gerty Theresa Cori was a Jewish Czech-American biochemist who
became the third woman — and first American woman —
to win a Nobel Prize in science (Physiology or Medicine, 1947).
2017 J. Giesen