The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947

Carl Ferdinand Cori

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Prize share: 1/4

Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz

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Prize share: 1/4

Bernardo Alberto Houssay

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947 was divided, one half jointly to Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz "for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen" and the other half to Bernardo Alberto Houssay "for his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar"

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