"I believe that cynicism and despair and the straight jacket into which totalitarian systems try to force the human mind are inimical to first-rate achievements in art and science."
Gerty Cori was the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in the sciences. In 1947 she shared the prize for medicine with her husband Carl.
About Her Life
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 Courtesy Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine. |
