Cori

[ kawr-ee, kohr-ee ]
/ ˈkɔr i, ˈkoʊr i /

noun

Carl Ferdinand, 1896–1984, and his wife, Gerty Theresa, 1896–1957, U.S. biochemists, born in Austria-Hungary: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1947.

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British Dictionary definitions for Cori

Cori
/ (ˈkɔːrɪ) /

noun

Carl Ferdinand. 1896–1984, US biochemist, born in Bohemia; shared a Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1947) with his wife Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896–1957) and Bernardo Houssay, for elucidating the stages of glycolysis
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Medical definitions for Cori

Cori
[ kôr′ē ]
Gerty Theresa Radnitz 1896-1957

Czech-born American biochemist. She shared a 1947 Nobel Prize with her husband, Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896-1984), and Bernardo A. Houssay for discovering the intermediate steps in glycogen-glucose conversion.
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