What is Tadeus Reichstein?
{{Nobelprize|Physiology or Medicine}} {{Infobox Scientist |name = Tadeusz Reichstein |image = Thadeus Reichstein ETH-Bib Portr 10137.jpg |birth_date = 20 July 1897 |birth_place = [[Włocławek]], [[Congress Poland]] |death_date = {{death date and age|1996|8|1|1897|7|20}} |death_place = [[Basel]], [[Switzerland]] |residence = |citizenship = [[Switzerland]] |nationality = [[Poles|Polish]], Swiss |ethnicity = |field = |work_institutions = |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = [[cortisone]] |influences = |influenced = |prizes = [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 1950 |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }} '''Tadeusz Reichstein''' (20 July 1897 {{ndash}} 1 August 1996) was a [[Poland|Polish-born]] [[Swiss]] [[chemist]], [[botanist]] and [[Nobel laureate]]. Reichstein was born into a [[Jewish]] family at [[Włocławek]], [[Congress Poland]], and spent his early childhood at [[Kyiv]], where his father was an engineer. He began his education at boarding-school in [[Jena]], [[Germany]]. In 1933, working in [[Zürich]], [[Switzerland]], Reichstein made [[vitamin C]] ([[ascorbic acid]]) in what is now called the [[Reichstein process]]. Reichstein, [[Edward Calvin Kendall|E.C. Kendall]] and [[Philip Showalter Hench|P.S. Hench]] were awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 1950 for their discovery of [[cortisone]]. He died in [[Basel]], [[Switzerland]]. The main industrial process for the artificial creation of Vitamin C still bears his name. Reichstein was the longest-lived Nobel laureate at the time of his death, but was beaten in 2008 by [[Rita Levi-Montalcini]]. ==References== *{{Citation |pmid = 11624287 |last=Rothschild |first=M |publication-date=1999 |year=1999 |title=Tadeus Reichstein: 20 July 1897-1 August 1996. |volume=45 |issue= |periodical=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Soci