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Tadeus Reichstein

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Noun1.Tadeus Reichstein - a Swiss chemist born in Poland; studied the hormones of the adrenal cortex


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Tadeus Reichstein also taught at and was the director of the Pharmaceutical Institute in the University of Basel.
Indeed, Hench, Edward Kendall, and Tadeus Reichstein together won a Nobel Prize for their work with cortisone.
It is not surprising, then, that cortisone came to be accepted as a miracle medicine or that within two years Hench and Kendall, together with Swiss researcher Tadeus Reichstein, were sharing the Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology.
 
 
 
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