Carl Isidor Cori (24 February 1865 – 31 August 1954) was an Austrian zoologist and professor who specialized in marine biology. His son,
Carl Ferdinand Cori won a Nobel prize in medicine in 1947.
Cori was born in Brüx to Eduard who director of the chancellery in the city, and Rosina. He became interested in nature from a young age and became an assistant to
Berthold Hatschek
Berthold Hatschek (3 April 1854 in Skrbeň – 18 January 1941 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist remembered for embryological and morphological studies of invertebrates.
Life
He studied zoology in Vienna under Carl Claus (1835-1899), and in ...
in Prague from 1887. He received a doctorate in 1889 from Leipzig University, a degree in medicine in 1891 from Prague and
habilitated in 1892. He took an interest in comparative anatomy of invertebrates and examined the
Kamptozoa and
Phoronidea. In 1898 he became in-charge of the zoological station in Trieste and handled marine biology courses for students from around the world. From 1919 to 1935 he taught at the
Karl Ferdinands University in Prague.
He married Maria (1870–1922) daughter of mathematics professor Ferdinand Lippich (1838–1913) in Prague in 1892 and they had a son,
Carl Ferdinand who won a Nobel prize in medicine in 1947, and two daughters, one being Margarete who married Felix Mainx, professor of biology.
References
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1954 deaths
1865 births
Academic staff of Charles University
Scientists from Trieste
Austrian zoologists