Cori, Carl Ferdinand

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Cori, Carl Ferdinand (1896–1984) and Cori, Gerty Teresa >(1896–1957) Czech‐born biochemists (husband and wife); discovered the importance of glucose phosphate in glucose metabolism, and the formation of lactic acid in muscle, and its conversion back to glucose in the liver (the Cori cycle); Nobel Prize 1947.

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