As per our current Database, Tadeusz Reichstein has been died on 1 August 1996(1996-08-01) (aged 99)\nBasel, Switzerland.
When Tadeusz Reichstein die, Tadeusz Reichstein was 99 years old.
| Popular As | Tadeusz Reichstein |
| Occupation | Scientists |
| Age | 99 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | July 20, 1897 (Włocławek, Poland, Polish) |
| Birthday | July 20 |
| Town/City | Włocławek, Poland, Polish |
| Nationality | Polish |
Tadeusz Reichstein’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Tadeusz Reichstein was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.
In 1933, working in Zürich, Switzerland, Reichstein succeeded, independently of Sir Norman Haworth and his collaborators in the United Kingdom, in synthesizing vitamin C (ascorbic acid) in what is now called the Reichstein process.
Together with Edward Calvin Kendall and Philip Showalter Hench, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for their work on hormones of the adrenal cortex which culminated in the isolation of cortisone.
He died in Basel, Switzerland. The principal industrial process for the artificial synthesis of Vitamin C still bears his name. Reichstein was the longest-lived Nobel laureate at the time of his death, but was surpassed in 2008 by Rita Levi-Montalcini.
