GOAT Science Couple

GOAT

Carl Cori (1896-1984) and Gerty Cori (1896-1957).

生于布拉格，觅于医学院，共爱户外与爬山。

为避反犹，逃往异国他乡。

艰难困苦。

Although the Coris were discouraged from working together at Roswell, they continued, specializing in investigating carbohydrate metabolism.

Gerty was informed during one university interview that it was considered “un-American” for a married couple to work together.

Carl refused a position at the University at Buffalo because the school would not allow him to work with his wife.

In 1931, they moved to St. Louis, Missouri, when Washington University offered positions to both Carl and Gerty, although Gerty’s rank and salary were much lower than her husband’s.

扬名立万

Carl and Gerty Cori shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947, for for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen. Along with Bernardo Houssay of Argentina, for his studies of hormonal regulation of carbohydrate metabolism.

桃李不言，下自成蹊

The Cori laboratories in St. Louis became an international center of biochemical research in the 1940s and 1950s, and at least six scientists who trained with the Coris became Nobel laureates:

• Arthur Kornberg (for DNA synthesis, 1959)

• Severo Ochoa (for RNA synthesis, 1959)

• Luis Leloir (for the role of sugar nucleotides in polysaccharide synthesis, 1970),

• Earl Sutherland (for the discovery of cAMP in the regulation of carbohydrate metabolism, 1971)

• Christian de Duve (for subcellular fractionation, 1974)

• Edwin Krebs (for the discovery of phosphorylase kinase, 1991)

闲谈

有一次吃完晚饭，我和B哥讨论说，怎么才能让中国科学超过日本。

我俩数了一下，21世纪，日本已经出了7.5个诺贝尔物理学奖（双重国籍算0.5）。

我笑着说，你只要拿8个诺贝尔物理学奖，就能以一己之力让中国科学超过日本。

B：TMD，有人拿过8个诺贝尔奖吗？