NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS GERTY THERESA CORI

Gertrude Theresa Cori was born in Praga in 1896. She was the third woman to win a Nobel prize in Science and the first woman to win a Nobel prize in Medicine.

    She received the nobel prize in 1947  for discovering the mechanism by which glycogen -a derivative of glucose is converted to lactic acid in muscle tissue and is then resynthesized and stored in the body as an energy source (known as the Cori cycle ).

     Gerty Cori died on October 26th, 1957 after making a very important discovery so, in the following years, people could further investigate the effects of certain nutrients in our body.