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Co·ri

[kawr-ee, kohr-ee]
noun
Carl Ferdinand, 1896–1984, and his wife, Gerty Theresa, 1896–1957, U.S. biochemists, born in Austria-Hungary: Nobel prize for medicine 1947.
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Cori (ˈkɔːrɪ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
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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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Cori Co·ri (kôr'ē), Gerty Theresa Radnitz. 1896-1957.

Czechoslovakian-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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