Article: DR. TADEUS REICHSTEIN, SWISS CHEMIST WHO WON NOBEL PRIZE.(News/National/International)

Byline: Tim Hilchey The New York Times

Dr. Tadeus Reichstein, a Swiss chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in medicine with two Americans for their work with cortisone, died Thursday at his home in Basel, Switzerland. He was 99.

In the 1930s and 1940s, Dr. Reichstein isolated several biologically active substances, including corticosterone, the anti-inflammatory agent now known as cortisone, from hormones produced in the adrenal glands, which are located above the kidneys.

In 1933, Dr. Reichstein developed a process for synthesizing Vitamin C that helped lead to its mass ...

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