"for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen."
GERTY THERESA CORI (NEE RADNITZ) WAS BORN IN PRAGUE, on August 15, 1896. She was privately tutored until the age of ten, when she entered a school for girls. In 1914 she enrolled in the medical school of the German University of Prague, and in 1920 she received her doctorate. In the same year she married her classmate, Carl F. Cori, with whom she had already published an immunological study. After two years at the Carolinen Children's Hospital in Vienna she joined her husband at the State Institute for the Study of Malignant Diseases in Buffalo, New York; in 1931 she accompanied him to the Washington University School of Medicine as research associate, and in 1947 she was appointed professor of biochemistry. Their joint work has dealt with the catalytic and hormonal metabolism of the carbohydrates.