By Julie Bierach, KWMU
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St. Louis – The U.S. Postal Service has issued a stamp baring the image of Washington University biochemist Gerty Cori, the first American woman to receive a Nobel Prize.
But for people who knew her, the honor is bittersweet because the Postal Service got the science wrong.
KWMU science reporter Julie Bierach explains.