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Name: Tadeus Reichstein
Birth Date: July 20, 1897
Death Date: August 1, 1996
Place of Birth: Wloclawek, Poland
Place of Death: Basel, Switzerland
Nationality: Polish
Gender: Male
Occupations: organic chemist

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Biography of Tadeus Reichstein
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The Polish organic chemist Tadeus Reichstein (1897-1996) shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex. The son of Isidor Reichstein, an engineer, Tadeus Reichstein was born in...
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Biography of Tadeus Reichstein
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It is now known that the hormones of the adrenal gland are essential to controlling many challenges to the human body, from maintaining a proper balance between water and salt to responding to stress. Tadeus Reichstein is one of those responsible for...
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Biography of Tadeusz Reichstein
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Reichstein is best known for his work with the hormones produced by the adrenal gland cortex. He established that these corticoids were steroids, and in 1936 was the first to isolate cortisone. Reichstein shared the 1950 Nobel Prize in physiology or...


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Tadeus Reichstein Summary
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1897-1996 Polish-born chemist educated in Switzerland who received the 1950 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research on adrenal cortex hormones. Reichstein and his team isolated and characterized about 29 hormones. Their work led to the...
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Tadeus Reichstein Information
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Tadeusz Reichstein (July 20, 1897 – August 1, 1996) was a Polish-born Swiss Nobel Prize-winning chemist. He was born into a Jewish family at Włocławek, Poland. After passing his early childhood at Kiev, Ukraine, where his father was an engineer,...


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The Independent - London
Obituary: Professor Tadeus Reichstein
08/16/1996: 915 words, approx. 3 pages
Tadeus Reichstein was one of the century's great masters of organic chemistry. In 1933 he made his first great contribution to organic chemistry by the invention of the first practical synthesis of Vitamin C. This involved, as the key steps, the reduction of...
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The Washington Post
Nobel-Winning Pharmacologist Tadeus Reichstein Dies at 99
08/06/1996: 1,917 words, approx. 6 pages
Tadeus Reichstein, 99, a Swiss organic chemist and pharmacologist who shared the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with two U.S. scientists for their work in cortisone, died Aug. 1 at his home in Basel, Switzerland. The cause of death was not reported....
 


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Tadeus Reichstein: Contributions to the World of Chemistry
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Essay on the life and works of Nobel Prize winner Tadeus Reichstein.


 

Tadeus Reichstein

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