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Tadeus Reichstein
Full Name of the recipient | Tadeus Reichstein |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Year of Award | 1950 |
Share in Award | 33.3% |
Award Shared with | Edward Calvin Kendall (33.3%) Philip Showalter Hench (33.3%) |
Motivation for the Award | for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | Basel University, Basel, Switzerland |
Place of Birth | Wloclawek, Poland POL |
Date of Birth | 20 July 1897 |
Age at the time of Award | 52 years |
Place of Death | Basel, Switzerland CHE |
Date of Death | 1 August 1996 |