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**Tadeus Reichstein**
Tadeus Reichstein
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Born	July 20, 1897; Włocławek, Congress Poland
Died	August 1, 1996 (aged 99); Basel, Switzerland;
Citizenship	Switzerland
Nationality	Poland
Known for	cortisone
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1950

Tadeusz Reichstein (July 20, 1897 – August 1, 1996) was a Polish-born Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate.

Reichstein was born into a Jewish family at Włocławek, Congress Poland, and spent his early childhood at Kiev, where his father was an engineer. He began his education a boarding-school at Jena, Germany.

In 1933, working in Zürich, Switzerland, Reichstein succeeded, independently of Sir Norman Haworth and his collaborators in the United Kingdom, in synthesizing vitamin C (ascorbic acid) in what is now called the Reichstein process.

Together with E. C. Kendall and P. S. Hench, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for their work on hormones of the adrenal cortex which culminated in the isolation of cortisone.

He died in Basel, Switzerland. The principal industrial process for the artificial synthesis of Vitamin C still bears his name. Reichstein was the longest-lived Nobel laureate at the time of his death, but was surpassed in 2008 by Rita Levi-Montalcini.

[edit] References

Rothschild, M (1999), "Tadeus Reichstein: 20 July 1897-1 August 1996.", Biographical memoirs of fellows of the Royal Society. Royal Society (Great Britain) 45: 451–67, PMID 11624287
Sterkowicz, S (1999), "[On the hundredth birthday of the first scientist of Polish ancestry to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine: Tadeusz Reichstein]", Prz. Lek. 56 (3): 245–6, PMID 10442018
Wincewicz A, Sulkowska M, Sulkowski S. (2007), "Tadeus Reichstein, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine: on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of his birth in Poland.", Hormones (Athens) 6 (4): 341–3, PMID 18055426, http://hormones.gr/preview.php?c_id=201

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Brief bio on the Nobel Website

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