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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947

"for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen"
"for his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar"
Carl Ferdinand Cori Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz Bernardo Alberto Houssay
Carl Ferdinand Cori Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz Bernardo Alberto Houssay
quarter 1/4 of the prize quarter 1/4 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
USA USA Argentina
Washington University
St. Louis, MO, USA		 Washington University
St. Louis, MO, USA		 Instituto de Biologia y Medicina Experimental (Institute for Biology and Experimental Medicine)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
b. 1896
(in Prague, then Austria)
d. 1984		 b. 1896
(in Prague, then Austria)
d. 1957		 b. 1887
d. 1971
 
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