Tadeus reichstein biography
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Tadeus reichstein biography
Tadeusz Reichstein
Polish-Swiss chemist (1897–1996)
Tadeusz Reichstein (20 July 1897 – 1 August 1996), also known as Tadeus Reichstein, was a Polish-Swisschemist and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (1950), which was awarded for his work on the isolation of cortisone.[1][2][3]
Early life
Reichstein was born into a Polish-Jewish family at Włocławek, Russian Empire.
His parents were Gastawa (Brockmann) and Izydor Reichstein.[4] He spent his early childhood at Kiev, where his father was an engineer. Due to the violent pogroms occurring all over the Russian Empire in 1905, his father began to explore emigration options for the family.
Tadeus began his education at boarding-school in Jena, Germany and arrived in Zürich, Switzerland two years later (1907) at the age of 10.[5]
Career
Reichstein studied under Hermann Staudinger during the latter's brief stint at the Technical University of Karlsruhe.
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