The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1950
Awarded on: 1950-10-26
"for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects"
Affiliations:
- Basel University – Basel, Switzerland
Tadeus Reichstein
Born: 1897-07-20 in Wloclawek, Poland
Gender: male
Field: Polish-Swiss chemist (1897–1996)
Biography
Tadeusz Reichstein, also known as Tadeus Reichstein, was a Polish-Swiss chemist and a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (1950), which was awarded for his work on the isolation of cortisone.