Carl Ferdinand Cori

Austrian-American Nobel prize laureate and scientist

Born: December 5, 1896 · Died: October 20, 1984

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Who was Carl Ferdinand Cori?

Carl Ferdinand Cori, ForMemRS (December 5, 1896 – October 20, 1984) was an Austrian-American biochemist and pharmacologist. Carl Ferdinand Cori was born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic). Carl was the son of Carl Isidor Cori, a zoologist, and Maria Cori (née Lippich), a daughter of the Austrian physician Ferdinand Lippich. The Cori family came from the Papal State (later the Roman Republic, today's Central Italy) to the royal Bohemian crownland, (Monarchical Austria at the end of the 17th century). Carl Ferdinand's grandfather Eduard Cori was an administrative officer and beekeeper in Brüx, and his grandmother was Rosina Trinks.

Carl Cori with his wife and fellow-Nobelist, Gerty Cori, in 1947

Historical significance

He, together with his wife Gerty Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize in 1947 for their discovery of how the glucose derivative glycogen (animal starch) is broken down and resynthesized in the body for use as a store and source of energy. In 2004, both Coris were designated a National Historic Chemical Landmark in recognition of their work that elucidated carbohydrate metabolism.

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