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Encyclopedia > Tadeusz Reichstein

Tadeusz Reichstein (July 20, 1897August 1, 1996) was a Polish-born Swiss Nobel Prize-winning chemist. July 20 is the 201st day (202nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 164 days remaining. ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... August 1 is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Motto: none1 Anthem: DÄ…browskis Mazurka (Polish: ) Capital (and largest city) Warsaw Polish2 Government Parliamentary republic  - President Lech KaczyÅ„ski  - Prime minister JarosÅ‚aw KaczyÅ„ski Formation    - Christianisation4 966   - Redeclared November 11, 1918  Accession to EU May 1, 2004 Area  - Total 311,889 km² (69th) 120,421 sq mi... Nobel Prize medal. ... A chemist pours from a Florence flask. ...


He was born in Włocławek, Poland. After passing his early childhood at Kiev, Ukraine, where his father was an engineer, Reichstein was educated, first at a boarding-school at Jena, Germany. WÅ‚ocÅ‚awek (pronounce: [vÈ—oʦwavek]) is a town in central Poland on the Vistula river, with population of approximately 123 000. ... Location Map of Ukraine with Kiev highlighted. ... Jena is a town in central Germany on the River Saale. ...


In 1933, working in Zürich, Switzerland, Reichstein succeeded, independently of Sir Norman Haworth and his collaborators in Britain, in synthesizing vitamin C (ascorbic acid). 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Zürich (German:   , Zürich German: Züri , in English generally Zurich) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 366,145 in 2004; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zürich. ... Look up sir in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Sir Walter Norman Haworth (March 19, 1883 – March 19, 1950) was a British chemist who is best known for his groundbreaking work on ascorbic acid (vitamin C). ... Chemical structure of vitamin C Vitamin C is a water-soluble nutrient and human vitamin essential for life and for maintaining optimal health, used by the body for many purposes. ... This article deals with the molecular aspects of ascorbic acid. ...


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. Edward Calvin Kendall (March 8, 1886 - May 4, 1972) was an American chemist who, with Philip S. Hench and Tadeus Reichstein, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for research on the structure and biological effects of adrenal cortex hormones. ... Philip Showalter Hench (February 28, 1896 - March 30, 1965) was an American physician who, with E. C. Kendall, in 1948 successfully applied an adrenal hormone (later known as cortisone) in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Cortisone (IPA:ˈkôrtəˌsōn) is a steroid hormone. ...


He died in Basel, Switzerland. The principal industrial process for the artificial synthesis of Vitamin C still bears his name. Basel (British English traditionally: Basle and more recently Basel , German: Basel , French: Bâle , Italian: Basilea ) is Switzerlands third most populous city (166,563 inhabitants (2004); 690,000 inhabitants in the conurbation stretching across the immediate cantonal and national boundaries made Basel Switzerlands second-largest urban area as...


Reichstein was the oldest living Nobel laureate and ist the oldest Nobel laureate ever.


External links

  • Brief bio on the Nobel Website



 

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