Nobel Prize Recipient. Carl Cori received world-wide recogntion after being awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for, according to the Nobel Prize committee, the discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen." Half of the monetary award was given to him and his wife Gerty and the other half of the award was given to Bernardo Houssay. Born the son of a zoologist, his grandfather was a well-respected physician in Prague. His ancestry was Roman Catholic Italian. During World War I, he drafted into the Austria-Hungarian army, serving in the ski corps, and later was transferred to the sanitary corps, for which he set up a laboratory in Trieste. After meeting his wife while at the German University or Charles University of Prague, they married and graduated as newlyweds in 1920. His Jewish wife had converted to the Roman Catholic faith for the marriage. Moving to Austria after the war, he worked with 1936 Nobel Prize recipient Otto Loewi, studying nerves. For political reasons, the couple emigrated to the United States in 1922, where they joined the staff of the Institute for the Study of Malignant Disease in Buffalo, New York. Many facilities refused to hire them together as a team; he always received a higher salary than his wife though they had the same education and were doing the same research. Even as students, the two collaborated on their research, publishing their first paper on an immunological study of the complement of human serum. They contributed dozens articles to "The Journal of Biological Chemistry" and other scientific periodicals. They became naturalized American citizens in 1928. After joining the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri in 1931, they discovered in 1936 a phosphate-containing form of the simple sugar glucose and its importance to carbohydrate metabolism. His wife is credited for research that found that a particular enzymatic defect in the metabolism of sugar is a human genetic disease, which means diabetes occurs in families. He joined Washington University as professor of pharmacology and in 1942 was made professor of biochemistry. The couple belonged to many scientific societies including the American Society of Biological Chemists, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Chemical Society and the American Philosophical Society. He received an honorary degree from University of Trieste. Although he was elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in London and given an honorary degree from Cambridge University in England, his wife was overlooked for these honors. His wife died in 1957 from a cancer that could have been related to over exposure to x-rays. The couple had one son. As a widower, he married Anne Fitzgerald-Jones in 1960. After retiring from Washington University in 1966, he was appointed visiting professor of Biological Chemistry at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts with a laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he researched genetics from 1968 to 1983, when his health declined. In 2004, for the "research on carbohydrate metabolism and the establishment of the Cori Cycle in 1929" by this husband-and-wife Nobel Prize team, a National Historic Chemical Landmark plaque was installed at the Washington University School of Medicine. The couple has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. The United States Postal Service issued a postage stamp in 2008 honoring the couple. The stamp became a rare collector's item as the chemical formula of glucose-1-phosphate was printed incorrectly. The couple was cremated and have cenotaphs in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.