Perfect Women's History Month biology project! Help your students develop science literacy skills with this article on Gerty Cori, the first American woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Gerty and her husband Carl Cori emigrated to the United States from Europe in the 1920s.Because Gerty was Jewish and female, she experienced racism and sexism in her career. Yet she and Carl worked together as an inseparable team and shared the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, al