Cori

Cori definition - medical

Co·ri (kôrˈē), Gerty Theresa Radnitz 1896-1957.

Czech-born American biochemist. She shared a 1947 Nobel Prize with her husband, Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896-1984), and Bernardo A. Houssay for discovering the intermediate steps in glycogen-glucose conversion.

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