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Reichstein

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[rahyk-stahyn, rahykh-shtahyn] / ˈraɪkˌstaɪn, ˈraɪxˌʃtaɪn /

noun

  1. Tadeus 1897–1996, Swiss chemist, born in Poland: Nobel Prize in medicine 1950.


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“We made things so the progressivity of the tax code is a lot higher than the tax brackets would imply,” Reichstein says.

From Barron's Jun. 24, 2026

The biggest shock came seven months later, when Reichstein was finally recalled.

From Seattle Times Nov. 10, 2021

“A lot of the older workers, including myself, we don’t work there for the money,” Reichstein said.

From Seattle Times Nov. 10, 2021

Survivors include his wife, the former Esther Reichstein; his sons, John, who is the chairman of the psychiatry department at Yale, and Andrew, who is a psychiatry professor at Duke; and three grandchildren.

From New York Times Oct. 14, 2015

In 1932 it was produced artificially by Chemist Tadeus Reichstein of Zurich, is now available to physicians in cheap form.

From Time Magazine Archive

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