Word: cory
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Argentina's shy, black-eyed Dr. Bernardo Alberto Houssay is often referred to as "the world's greatest living physiologist" (TIME, May 5). Medical researchers are also enthusiastic about a gifted pair of biochemists at St. Louis' Washington University: shy Dr. Carl Ferdinand Cori and his redhaired, vivacious wife Gerty. Few scientists were surprised last week when Stockholm announced that Houssay and Cori & Cori had been jointly awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in medicine...
...Coris were not the first husband-&-wife team so honored (former prizewinners: Radium Discoverers Pierre and Marie Curie, Chemists Frederic Joliot and Irene Curie-Joliot). Carl, 50, and Gerty Cori, 51, both born in what used to be Austria-Hungary, met as medical students in the same class at the University of Prague, soon afterward were married and teamed up in a lifetime study of the mysterious chemistry of the human body. Their work may some day lead to a cure for diabetes (TIME, May 12). At Washington...
Recently the Cori studies merged with those of Houssay. Following up Houssay's discovery that the pituitary is involved in diabetes, the Coris found that a mysterious substance in a pituitary extract seems to regulate the body's absorption of sugar...
Glycogen. The $5,000 annual award of the Sugar Research Foundation went to Austrian-born Dr. Carl Cori of Washington University Medical School, St. Louis. Pale, tall Dr. Cori, 51, specializes in sugar, the basic fuel of human metabolism. For 20 years he has traced the progress of sugar through the body, watched it turn into glycogen (animal starch), measured how much glycogen is stored in the muscles and liver...
...Cori's most important work throws light on the mysterious action of insulin. A shot of insulin allows a diabetic to use up sugar as a normal person does. But if insulin is added to sugar in a test tube, nothing happens. Why? Apparently the body furnishes other substances to effect the reaction. Dr. Cori has found some of these substances and has learned how they work. But he wants no one (not even the eager Sugar Research Foundation) to get the idea that he knows the whole story of sugar. If he did, he could answer a question...