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Carl Ferdinand Cori
Carl Ferdinand Cori
(
1896
-
1984
) was an
American
biochemist
born in
Austria-Hungary
who, together with his wife
Gerty Cori
and Argentine physiologist
Bernardo Houssay[?]
, received a
Nobel prize
in 1947 for their discovery of how
glycogen
(animal starch) - a derivative of
glucose
- is broken down and resynthesized in the body, for use as a store and source of energy.
External links:
http://www.nobel-winners.com/Medicine/carl_and_gerty_cori
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