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.
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