Crucible of science: the story of the Cori laboratory

""Crucible of Science"" is the story of a unique laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis, and of Carl and Gerty Cori, the biochemists who established it. Carl and Gerty met and married at medical school in Prague in the 1920s. After graduation, they immigrated to the U.S. to escape deteriorating conditions in Europe. Carl soon received an offer from Washington University to become Pharmacology Chair, and the couple settled in St. Louis. Not only did both Coris go on to win the Nobel Prize, the laboratory they established at the University has since produced some of the most outstandin.

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Carl and Gerty Cori: Early Life""; ""2. Sidney Colowick: Their First Graduate Student""; ""3. Herman Kalckar: The Great Dane""; ""4. Severo Ochoa: Spanish Genius""; ""5. Move to Enzymology and Work of Arda Green""; ""6. Luis Leloir: One of Argentina�s Greatest Scientists""; ""7. Earl Sutherland: Master of Intuition""; ""8. Coris� Move to the Department of Biological Chemistry: Award of Nobel Prizes and Career of Tom Cori""; ""9. Sidney Velick: Modest Enzymologist""; ""10. Victor Najjar: Pediatrician and Immunochemist""

""11. Edwin Krebs: Accidental Biochemist""""12. Mildred Cohn: Against All Odds""; ""13. Christian de Duve: Belgian with Savoir Faire""; ""14. Arthur Kornberg: A Giant of Biochemistry""; ""15. Hormone Effects on Muscle Carbohydrate Metabolism""; ""16. Charles Park: Aristocratic Physiologist""; ""17. Jane Harting Park: Enthusiast for Science""; ""18. Gerty Cori�s Work on Glycogen Structure and Glycogen Storage Diseases""; ""19. Joseph Larner: Focus on Glycogen Synthase""; ""20. Contributions of Barbara and David Brown""; ""21. William Daughaday: All About Growth""

""22. Robert Crane: A Decade…