What happens when you combine a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, diabetes research, and too much Pink Drink? Pizza Feet. I would say it will all make sense, but it really doesn’t, however, it’s the hilarious episode where Leah talks about her 1 Cool Science Thing, scientist Gerty Cori.
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Show Notes & Extras:
- The gal pals this month are Dr. Leah Leach, Bonnie Fillenwarth, Katie Harris and Lisa Meece.
- Recorded before the U.S. self-quarantine/shut down of COVID-19.
- The science gals we’ve already covered this month are Alice Ball and Mary Ainsworth, and Marie Van Brittan Brown.
- Get-to-know-you question: Time freezes for everyone but you for one day, what do you do?
- Lisa has an existential crisis
- Why Leah can’t play bingo
- Leah’s 1 Cool Science Thing is Nobel Prize-winning scientist, Gerty Cori
- Women in Science School Presentation (Available to midwest schools from Gal’s Guide)
- Leah’s diabetes journey
- Gerty’s early life in Prague
- Med school and her classmate Carl Cori (spoilers, they get married!)
- Coming to America
- “UnAmerican” for men and women to work together
- 1929 paper published on the Cori Cycle by both Gerty & Carl
- Explanation of the Cori Cycle
- Changing the Face of Medicine (Quote Leah read)
- Searching for a new lab where Gerty & Carl could continue working together
- Moving to St. Louis
- Gerty made one-tenth as much money as Carl even though they were co-published
- 1947 Nobel Prize Winners
- What are the categories of the Nobel? Why does Gerty have so many different “firsts” in this area?
- Jane Addams was the first American woman to receive a Nobel Prize in any category. (Gal’s Guide has great coverage of Jane)
- Rant that Marie Curie is not American
- EXTRA: Cute video about the Cori’s and their Nobel Prize Medal donation to the Washington School of Medicine
- UPDATE: What is an Ester? An ester is an organic compound where the hydrogen in the compound’s carboxyl group is replaced with a hydrocarbon group.
- Pizza Feet.
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