Carl Ferdinand Cori
1896 – 1984 · aged 88
Czech Nobel prize laureate and scientist (1896–1984)
- Born
- 5 Dec 1896 · Prague
- Died
- 20 Oct 1984 · Cambridge
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 5 Dec 1896BornBorn in Prague
- 1914 – 1918WarWorld War I
- 1946AwardAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
- 1947AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1948AwardWillard Gibbs Award
- 1950AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
- 1952AwardSilliman Memorial Lectures
- 1955AwardBanting Medal
- 1959AwardAustrian Decoration for Science and Art
- 1967AwardHonorary doctorate of the University of Granada
- 20 Oct 1984DiedDied in Cambridge
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1896 – 1984).
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
Biography
Carl Ferdinand Cori, ForMemRS (December 5, 1896 – October 20, 1984) was an Austrian-American biochemist and pharmacologist. He, together with his wife Gerty Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize in 1947 for their discovery of how the glucose derivative glycogen (animal starch) is broken down and resynthesized in the body for use as a store and source of energy. In 2004, both Coris were designated a National Historic Chemical Landmark in recognition of their work that elucidated carbohydrate metabolism.
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