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Cori

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

noun

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


Cori British  
/ ˈkɔːrɪ /

noun

  1. 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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