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  Tadeus Reichstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tadeus Reichstein (July 20, 1897 - August 1, 1996) was a Polish Nobel Prize-winning chemist.
In 1933, working in Zürich, Switzerland, Reichstein succeeded, independently of Sir Norman Haworth and his collaborators in Britain, in synthesising vitamin C (ascorbic acid).
Hench, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1950 for their work on hormones of the adrenal cortex which culminated in the isolation of cortisone.
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 Science in Poland - Tadeus Reichstein
Tadeus Reichstein (Quarles van Ufford) was born on July 20, 1897 in Wloclawek, Poland.
Reichstein was awarded the Copley Medal of the British Royal Society in 1968.
The Reichstein Medal of the Swiss Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences was created for excellence in pharmaceutical sciences in honor of Professor Tadeus Reichstein.
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 Reichstein, Tadeus
Reichstein publié pendant cette période une série de papiers sur ces substances et sur les nouvelles méthodes de manifestation et fabrication d'eux et aussi sur les substances aromatiques dans chicorée.
Reichstein a aussi collaboré avec E. Kendall et P. Hench dans leur travail sur les hormones du cortex surrénal qui a culminé dans l'isolement de cortisone et la découverte de sa valeur thérapeutique dans le traitement d'arthrite rheumatoid.
Reichstein a épousé le fourgon de Henriette Louise Quarles Ufford, de noblesse hollandaise, en 1927.
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 Tadeus Reichstein - Biography
Tadeus Reichstein was born on July 20th, 1897, at Wloclawek, Poland.
Reichstein published during this period a series of papers on these substances and on new methods of demonstrating and making them, and also on the aromatic substances in chicory.
Reichstein married Henriette Louise Quarles van Ufford, of Dutch nobility, in 1927.
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 Tadeus Reichstein - Wikipedia
Reichstein isolierte die Hormone der Nebennierenrinde, klärte unter anderem die molekulare Struktur des lebenswichtigen Aldosterons auf und erkannte die therapeutische Wirksamkeit des Kortisons zur Behandlung rheumatischer Krankheiten.
1932 stellte Tadeus Reichstein das Vitamin C auf einem Weg der Synthese her, der sich zur industriellen Produktion eignete.
Tadeus Reichstein kam mit 8 Jahren in die Schweiz.
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Reichstein was educated in Zurich and held posts in the department of organic chemistry at the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, from 1930.
Reichstein and his colleagues isolated about 29 hormones and determined their structure and chemical composition.
Apart from hormone research, Reichstein is also known for his synthesis of vitamin C, a feat achieved about the same time (1933) in England by Sir Walter N. Haworth and coworkers.
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 MSU Chemistry - Gallery of Chemists' Photo-Portraits and Mini-Biographies - Individual
But Reichstein is best known for his work on the steroidal hormones (cortisone, hydrocortisone and others) for which he shared (with E. Kendall and P. Hench) the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
In later years (1948-79) Reichstein isolated and identified various toxic substances from butterflies, toads, grasshoppers and other insects; he also worked on the genetic and chemical taxonomy of ferns.
Reichstein was born in Poland but when he was only nine, his parents moved to Switzerland to escape the Russian pogroms against Jews.
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Tadeus Reichstein (Quarles van Ufford) was born o
Reichstein's researches on steroids, particularly on hormones of the adrenal cortex, paralleled those of Kendall in the United States; his "substance F," described and named by him in 1936, proved identical to Kendall's "compound E," or cortisone.
Tadeus Reichstein, Philip Showalter Hench and Edward Calvin Kendall, shared in 1950 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects.
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 ETH-Bibliothek: Tadeus Reichstein (Chemist)
Tadeus Reichstein was born on 20 July 1897 in Wloclawek (Poland) and grew up in Zurich.
Following a period as assistant to Leopold Ruzicka, Reichstein was appointed professor of special anorganic and physiological chemistry at the ETH in 1937.
Several bequests held in the Archive of the ETH Zurich include correspondence from Tadeus Reichstein, as well as a biographical file featuring newspaper articles on his life and work.
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 AllRefer.com - Tadeus Reichstein (Medicine, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Tadeus Reichstein[tAde´OOsh rIkh´shtIn] Pronunciation Key, 1897–1996, Swiss organic chemist, b.
For his work on the hormones of the cortex of the adrenal glands he shared with Edward C. Kendall and Philip S. Hench the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Reichstein was also the first (1933) to synthesize ascorbic acid (vitamin C).
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 Tadeus Reichstein Biography / Biography of Tadeus Reichstein Anatomy and Physiology Biography
Tadeus Reichstein is one of those responsible for this knowledge; Edward Kendall and Philip Hench also played an important role in these efforts, and the three men shared the 1950 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
Reichstein's work has had effects throughout medicine--in the treatments of Addison's disease and rheumatoid arthritis, for example, and in the understanding of the fundamental biochemical processes of steroid hormone metabolism.
Tadeus attended the Eidgenössiche Technische Hochshule and graduated in 1920 with a chemical engineering d.....
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 Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO): DR. TADEUS REICHSTEIN, SWISS CHEMIST WHO WON NOBEL ...
Dr. Tadeus Reichstein, a Swiss chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in medicine with two Americans for their work with cortisone, died Thursday at his home in Basel, Switzerland.
In the 1930s and 1940s, Dr. Reichstein isolated several biologically active substances, including corticosterone, the anti-inflammatory agent now known as cortisone, from hormones produced in the adrenal glands, which are located above the kidneys.
In 1933, Dr. Reichstein developed a process for synthesizing Vitamin C that helped lead to its...
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 Reichstein, Tadeus --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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.
With Kendall and Tadeus Reichstein of Switzerland, Hench received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for discoveries concerning hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological...
Biographical sketches of Tadeus Reichstein of Switzerland and Edward Calvin Kendall and Philip Showalter Hench of the U.S. Feature a presentation speech on the occasion of their jointly winning this prize.
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 Encyclopedia: Tadeus Reichstein
July 20 is the 201st day (202nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 164 days remaining.
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. Kendall, in 1948 successfully applied an adrenal hormone (later known as cortisone) in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
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Learn more about Tadeus Reichstein in the online encyclopedia.
Tadeus Reichstein (July 20, 1897 - 1996), a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, was born in Wloclawek, Poland.
In 1933, working in Zurich, Switzerland, Reichstein succeeded, independently of Sir Norman Haworth and his collaborators in Britain, in synthesising vitamin C (ascorbic acid).
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Deaths Tadeus Reichstein, who shared the Nobel prize for medicine in 1950 with two other physicians, died Aug. 1 in Switzerland.
Rothschild also worked with Nobel Prize-winner Tadeus Reichstein on research showing how monarch butterflies are protected from predators because of the chemicals, called glycosides...
Tadeus Reichstein, nació en Wlocawek (Polonia) en 1947.
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 SSPhS Tadeus Reichstein
Tadeus Reichstein died on August 1, 1996, shortly after his 99th birthday.
For the isolation, structure elucidation and synthesis of important hormones of the adrenal cortex he shared the 1950 Nobel Prize in Medicine with the American scientists Eward C. Kendall and Philip S. Hench.
According to an article in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung of July 23, 1997, on the occasion of his 100th birthday, Reichstein told in an interview that his most important appreciation in Switzerland was the Marcel Benoist Prize in 1948 and the creation of the Tadeus Reichstein medal of the SGPhW for excellence in pharmaceutical sciences.
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 Written biography of Tadeus Reichstein | Life of Tadeus Reichstein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
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 Wloclawek, Poland, on July 20, 1897.
In 1929 he became lecturer in organic and pharmaceutical chemistry at the Zurich Technical College, where in 1934 he was appointed titular professor, and in 1937 associate professor, of organic chemistry.
Further Reading There was a biography of Reichstein in Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine, 1942-1962 (1964), which also included his Nobel Lecture, as well as those of Kendall and Hench.
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 Tadeus Reichstein: Contributions to the World of Chemistry Essay
During the course of his career, polish chemist Tadeus Reichstein achieved several remarkable breakthroughs in the field of organic chemistry that remain significant even today, almost a century thereafter.
Millions of people around the world still use the fruits of his research each day of their lives, be it while undergoing a treatment for a medical condition, taking a vitamin supplement, or just sipping a freshly brewed cup of coffee.
Most people do not take the time to reflect upon the painstaking research that went into making their lives comfortable and pain-free, or to appreciate the efforts of the people who achieved these breakthroughs.
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 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Research & Reward -- Nov. 06, 1950   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
Thus, in 1936, two biochemists, Edward Kendall of Rochester, Minn, and Polish-born Tadeus Reichstein of Basel, Switzerland, independently reported that among the secretions of the adrenal glands they had found a complex hormone.
Meanwhile, Reichstein ran the number of hormones and similar substances found in the adrenal glands to 28, and Kendall kept trying to synthesize compound E, or something like it.
Edward Calvin Kendall, Philip Showalter Hench and Tadeus Reichstein were awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize for medicine.
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 NewStandard: 8/6/96
Tadeus Reichstein, 99, won Nobel for cortisone research
BASEL, Switzerland -- Nobel laureate Tadeus Reichstein, who shared a prize with two other physicians for work with cortisone, has died, family members said yesterday.
He was buried in a private family gathering in the Jewish cemetery in Basel on Friday.
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 Tadeus Reichstein - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Tadeus Reichstein - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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BASEL, Switzerland -- Nobel laureate Tadeus Reichstein, who shared a prize with two other physicians for work with cortisone, has died, family members said Monday.
Reichstein was awarded the Nobel prize for medicine in 1950.
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 Tadeus Reichstein - netlexikon
Reichstein isolierte die Hormone der Nebennierenrinde, klärte unter anderen die molekulare Struktur des lebenswichtigen Aldosterons auf und erkannte die therapeutische Wirksamkeit des Kortisons zur Behandlung rheumatischer Krankheiten.
1932 stellte Tadeus Reichstein das Vitamin C auf dem Wege der Synthese her, das sich zur industriellen Produktion eignete.
Frisch, Hans Bender, Tadeus Reichstein, Max Lüscher, Walter Baade, Walte...
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 Elsevier Author Gateway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
Tait, Sylvia A.S. The correspondence of S. Simpson and J. Tait with T. Reichstein during their collaborative work on the isolation and elucidation of the structure of electrocortin (later aldosterone)11Professor Tadeus Reichstein died on August 1, 1996 at the age of 99.
This account, summarizing and commenting upon the correspondence exchanged between T. Reichstein and ourselves during the isolation and identification of aldosterone, is our tribute to him.
Tait, James F. The correspondence of S. Simpson and J. Tait with T. Reichstein during their collaborative work on the isolation and elucidation of the structure of electrocortin (later aldosterone)11Professor Tadeus Reichstein died on August 1, 1996 at the age of 99.
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 Tadeus Reichstein Biography / Biography of Tadeus Reichstein Biographies
Tadeus Reichstein Biography / Biography of Tadeus Reichstein Biographies
The following biographies focus on different aspects of Tadeus Reichstein's life and work.
All biographies listed are included in the Tadeus Reichstein Biography Pass.
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 Tadeus Reichstein - Banquet Speech
Tadeus Reichstein's speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1950 (in German)
Prior to the speech, Robin Fåhraeus, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, addressed the laureate: "Doctor Philip Hench, Professor Edward Kendall and Professor Tadeus Reichstein.
Together your researches have contributed to the enlightenment of the extremely complicated physiological chemistry of the suprarenal glands which since their discovery for a long time have been assumed to play no other part than to fill up the vacuum between the kidneys and the diaphragm.
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 ETH-Bibliothek: Tadeus Reichstein (Chemiker)
Für diese Hormonforschung erhielt er 1950 den Nobelpreis für Medizin.
1933 fand Reichstein einen Weg, um Vitamin C in fünf Schritten aus Traubenzucker zu gewinnen.
Im Archiv der ETH Zürich befinden sich in verschiedenen Nachlässen Korrespondenzen von Tadeus Reichstein sowie ein biographisches Dossier mit Zeitungsartikeln zu seinem Leben und Werk.
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