Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896-1984)

Awarded the Prize “for the discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen.”

American biochemist. Cori was born on December 5, 1896 in Prague. In 1914 he entered the German University of Prague and graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1920. He spent a year at the University of Vienna and a year as assistant in pharmacology at the University of Graz, then he joined the State Institute for the Study of Malignant Diseases in Buffalo as biochemist. In 1931 he became Professor of Pharmacology at the Washington University Medical School and later became Professor of Biochemistry. Cori died on October 20, 1984 at Cambridge, Massachusetts.