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Carl Ferdinand Cori
Full Name of the recipient | Carl Ferdinand Cori |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Year of Award | 1947 |
Share in Award | 25.0% |
Award Shared with | Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz (25.0%) Bernardo Alberto Houssay (50.0%) |
Motivation for the Award | for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA |
Place of Birth | Prague, Austria-Hungary (now known as Czech Republic CZE) |
Date of Birth | 5 December 1896 |
Age at the time of Award | 50 years |
Place of Death | Cambridge, MA, United States USA |
Date of Death | 20 October 1984 |