Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori

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Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori
1896-1957
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Contents

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

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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.

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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
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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 their explanation for the movement
  of energy in the body- from muscle, to the liver,
  and back to muscle.

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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.

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Cori ester

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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By

• Evangelia Evangelou
• Kalia Pelengari
• Elina Alamebriti
• Elena Stavrou