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

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2021

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

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

Thus, in 1936, two biochemists, Edward Kendall of Rochester, Minn, and Polish-born Tadeus Reichstein of Basel, Switzerland, independently reported that among the secretions of the adrenal glands they had found a complex hormone.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive