Group portrait of the Cori research team at Washington University Medical School, St Louis
Date
1948
Sitter
Helen Kemp Porter (1899 - 1987, British) , Plant physiologist
Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896 - 1984) , Biochemist
Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896 - 1984) , Biochemist
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Dimensions
height (print): 80mm
width (print): 115mm
width (print): 115mm
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Description
Group portrait of eight scientist outside a building, including Helen Kemp Porter, and Carl Cori seated at the centre on a pedestal.
Inscribed on the back ‘St Louis 1948’.
After the war Helen Kemp Porter spent a year with Carl and Gerty Cori at Washington University, St Louis, studying plant phosphorylases. The same year the Coris won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for their discoveries in identifying and synthesizing the enzyme glycogen phosphorylase.
Helen Kemp Porter (1899-1987) was a plant physiologist and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956.
Carl Cori (1896-1984) was a biochemist, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1950.
Inscribed on the back ‘St Louis 1948’.
After the war Helen Kemp Porter spent a year with Carl and Gerty Cori at Washington University, St Louis, studying plant phosphorylases. The same year the Coris won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for their discoveries in identifying and synthesizing the enzyme glycogen phosphorylase.
Helen Kemp Porter (1899-1987) was a plant physiologist and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956.
Carl Cori (1896-1984) was a biochemist, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1950.
Object history
From a collection of photographs of Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett and Helen Kemp Porter, presented to the Royal Society for duplication by Jean Adams in June 2016.
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