Carl Isidor Cori

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.

In 1898 he became in-charge of the zoological station in Trieste and handled marine biology courses for students from around the world.

[1] 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.