Carl and Gerty Cori - Cori Lunar Crater - St. Louis, Missouri
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N 38° 39.367 W 090° 18.329
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Star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame honoring Nobel Laureates Carl and Gerty Cori.
Waymark Code: WM5BK9
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 12/13/2008
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Text of Star and Plaque:
Carl & Gerty Cory
Born December 5, 1896 and August 15, 1896
Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Theresa Radnitz earned medical degrees from
the German University of Prague in 1920 and married later that year. After
they joined the Washington University School of Medicine in 1931, their
discovery of the mechanism for blood glucose regulation earned them the Nobel
Prize in 1947. Gerty Cori was the first American woman to be so honored.
In addition, six eventual Nobel Laureates received training in their laboratory.
Carl Cori said of their remarkable collaboration: "Our efforts have been largely
complementary, and one without the other would not have gone so far..."
"Cori is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on
the far side of the Moon. It lies less than one crater diameter to the north of
Baldet crater. To the northeast is the Grissom crater.
This is a circular crater formation with a somewhat eroded outer rim. The
inner wall has a shelf running around the western perimeter where the material
has slumped somewhat from the edge. There is a small outward break in the
northern wall, and a small crater lies against the eastern inner wall. The
interior floor is marked by a few tiny craterlets, but no ridges or
irregularities of note." - Wikipedia The crater is named
for Gerty Cori as is the Cori crater on Venus.