Extractions: Monday, November 01, 2010 Life Science Network: Chemie.DE Bionity.COM Quimica.ES ChemieKarriere.NET ... analytica-world.com Search for: in: All Articles Catalogues Companies Encyclopedia of Chemistry Events Industry parks Market overviews News Product presentations Software Search Target: Full text Title Operation: OR AND Search for: partial exact Carl Ferdinand Cori biochemist and pharmacologist born in Prague (then in Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic) who, together with his wife Gerty Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay , received a Nobel Prize in 1947 for their discovery of how glycogen (animal starch) - a derivative of glucose - is broken down and resynthesized in the body, for use as a store and source of energy. In 2004 both were designated an ACS National Historical Chemical Landmark in recognition of their work that elucidated carbohydrate metabolism.[1] Carl was the son of Carl Cori, a physician, and Martha Lippich, he grew up in Trieste where his father was the director of the Marine Biological Station. In late 1914 the Cori family moved to Prague and Carl entered the medical school (at the German part) of the Charles University. While studying there he met Gerty Theresa Radnitz . He was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army and served in the ski corps, and later was transferred to the sanitary corps, for which he set up a laboratory in Trieste. At the end of the war Carl completed his studies, graduating with Gerty in 1920. Carl and Gerty married that year and worked together in clinics in Vienna.
