Special Women to Have Won the Nobel Prize with Their Remarkable Contributions

Gerty Theresa Cori

The winner of numerous awards and honors, Gerty Theresa Cori was a biochemist who significantly contributed to discovering how our bodies use energy. The Austrian-Hungarian and naturalized American worked together with her husband, Carl Ferdinand Cori, to develop the Cori cycle, which essentially formed part of metabolism.

Due to her work, Theresa earned the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the first woman to do so. The award, however, made her the third woman Nobel Prize laureate in science. Her successful collaborations with her husband, despite him being discouraged from doing so, kept her going in a world where women were largely marginalized in the science field.

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