Question: Which Washington University professor, past or present, was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
Answer: A) Gerty Cori and her husband, Carl Cori, received the Nobel Prize in December 1947 for their work on carbohydrate metabolism. She was also the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in science.
Learn more about her work from University Archives.
Congrats to this week’s winner, Michaele Penkoske, a consultant in the Career Center, who will receive an “I Knew WashU” luggage tag!
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