Remembering today on her death anniversary
Dr.Gerty Theresa Cori (August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957 ) was a Jewish Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist first American woman—to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for her role in the discovery of glycogen metabolism.
With her husband Carl and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, Gerty Cori received the Nobel Prize in 1947 for the discovery of the mechanism by which glycogen—a derivative of glucose—is broken down in muscle tissue into lactic acid and then resynthesized in the body and stored as a source of energy. (known as the Cori cycle).