Gerty Cori
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Gerty Theresa Cori was an Austrian-American biochemist who in 1947 was the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for her role in the "discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen".
Gerty Cori with her husband and fellow-Nobelist, Carl Ferdinand Cori, in 1947.
National Science Board Members, July 1951 (Cori is second from the right, first row)
The National Women's Hall of Fame (NWHF) is an American institution founded to honor and recognize women. It was incorporated in 1969 in Seneca Falls, New York, and first inducted honorees in 1973. As of 2021, it had 303 inductees.
NWHF from across river, in 2022
Interior of NWHF, in historic mill, in 2022