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Gerty Cori

Gerty Cori

18961957

Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist, physician, and Nobel laureate who discovered the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen, becoming the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Jean Piaget

Jean Piaget

18961980

Swiss psychologist and biologist known for his seminal theory of cognitive development and genetic epistemology