칼 퍼디낸드 코리

소개

칼 퍼디낸드 코리(영어: Carl Ferdinand Cori, ForMemRS, 1896년 12월 5일 ~ 1984년 10월 20일)는 오스트리아-헝가리 제국 프라하 출신의 미국의 생화학자이다.

Carl Ferdinand Cori, ForMemRS was a Czech-American biochemist and pharmacologist. He, together with his wife Gerty Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize in 1947 for their discovery of how the glucose derivative glycogen is broken down and resynthesized in the body for use as a store and source of energy. In 2004, both Coris were designated a National Historic Chemical Landmark in recognition of their work that elucidated carbohydrate metabolism.