Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori

1. Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori 1896-1957

2. Contents • Her family and childhood • Education • Time spent at Roswell • Nobel Prize • The Cori Ester • Awards 1 • Awards 2 • Death • General Conclusion

3. Her family and childhood • Dr. Cori was born on August 15, 1896, in Prague, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She had three sisters and was the daughter of Martha and Otto Radnitz, who was the manager of a sugar refinery. Her family was Jewish and she was educated by private tutors.

4. Education • At age sixteen and influenced by her uncle, who was a professor of pediatrics at the University of Prague, Cori decided to study medicine. There she met Carl Ferdinand Cori and she married him. They then took positions at the University of Vienna and decided to follow careers in medical research, instead of medical practice. Carl Ferdinand Cori

5. Time spent at Roswell • In 1922 they immigrated to the US together where they took up jobs at the State institute for the study of Malignant diseases in Buffalo New York. It was not encouraged but they worked together specializing in biochemistry they published fifty papers while at Roswell. Gerty Cori published eleven articles by herself. In 1929 they proposed their theory that won them their Nobel prize. The Cori cycle is theirexplanation for the movement of energy in the body- from muscle, to the liver, and back to muscle.

6. Nobel Prize • Dr. Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology, in 1947, which was shared with her husband, Dr. Carl F. Cori, and Dr. B.A. Houssay of Argentina.

7. In 1936 they discovered the previously unknown metabolic intermediate glucose-1-phosphate, which is now known as the "Cori ester." Cori ester

8. Awards 1 • Dr. Gerty Cori received many honors and awards during her life, and among them were The Midwest Award of the American Chemical Society, in 1946; the Squibb Award in endocrinology, in 1947; the Garvan Medal and the Women's National Press Award in 1948; the Sugar Research Prize of the National Academy of Sciences in 1950 the Borden Foundation Award for outstanding medical research in 1950. She shared with her husband, Carl, the Squibb and the American Chemical Awards.

9. Awards 2 • She received honorary degrees from Smith College, Yale University and Rochester University. She was also one of twelve women honored at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, N.Y. in 1949, at ceremonies of the first medical degree bestowed on a woman.

10. Death In the summer of 1947, she started to feel the symptoms of Myelofibrosis which is a rare disease of the bone marrow. She continued her work for ten years and would not agree to stop her laboratory activities, suffering with pain. On October 26, 1957, she died of kidney failure. The Cori crater on the moon was named after her.

11. General Conclusion • We believe that Thereza Radnitz Cori is an amazing scientist not only because of her awards but because of all the things she discovered. Also we admire and respect her persistence to continue her scientific studies even after she became sick.

12. By • Evangelia Evangelou • Kalia Pelengari • Elina Alamebriti • Elena Stavrou