Cori Gerty Theresa Radnitz

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(kôr′ē), Gerty Theresa Radnitz 1896-1957.

Czech-born American biochemist. She and her husband, Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896-1984), shared a 1947 Nobel Prize for their research on carbohydrate metabolism.

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