Gerty Theresa Cori was a Czech and 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
Cori in 1947
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)