Gerty Cori

Gerty Cori, Biochemist
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@gertycori2 #relatable

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@MarianDiamond7 Awesome for you to receive that award!

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@AliceAugustaBa4 What a great life you lived.

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@marieccampaign What a shame for Marie Curie for her husband to pass away.

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@Rosalin19964619 No way! Rosalind Franklin is awesome!

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@gertycori2 YOU WANT SOME BEEF BRO

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Unfortunately, Gerty Cori died in 1957. We will always remember her incredible devotion to biochemistry and discovery about the breakdown of glucose. These discoveries helped medical research reach a greater extent, and assisted in the fight against diabetes. #GHSMatildaEffect

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The Nobel Prize wasn't the only award Gerty Cori had won from her astounding discovery. She obtained the Midwest Award of the American Chemical Society in 1946, the St. Louis Award in 1948, and the Squibb Award in endocrinology in 1947. She became pretty famous! #GHSMatildaEffect

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Gerty Cori and Carl Cori began to study carbohydrate metabolism at Washington University, and their work paid off! They soon won the Nobel Prize in 1947. This is them at the award ceremony. #GHSMatildaEffect

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Gerty Cori and her husband Carl Cori were able to identify the enzyme that initiates the breaking down of glucose. Biochemistry sure is fascinating! #GHSMatildaEffect

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Cori's discovery of how the body metabolizes glucose helped scientists understand the human body's production and storage of energy. Her findings were key to how people could start treating diabetes, which was a disease that occurred in many people. Go Gerty! #GHSMatildaEffect

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As a very talented student in Prague, Gerty Cori was one of few women to be admitted into the Medical School of the German University of Prague, and then became a research associate in 1938 at Washington University. How can anyone be as smart as her? #GHSMatildaEffect

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Although women often had their credit taken away for scientific discoveries, Gerty Cori worked with Carl Ferdinand Cori to become the third woman ever to win a Nobel Prize. Impressive! #GHSMatildaEffect

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Gerty's full name is Gerty Theresa Cori, and she was a Jewish, Austrian, Hungarian, and American woman. Now that's diverse! #GHSMatildaEffect

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Gerty Cori invented the Cori cycle, which is a representation of how lactate produced by anaerobic glycolysis in the muscles is moved to the liver, which can then be converted into glucose, and then the glucose goes back into the muscles, starting the cycle all over again.

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Hello! This twitter account will be devoted to the contribution of Gerty Cori's discovery. Did you know she received the Nobel Prize in 1947? #GHSMatildaEffect