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reichstein, tadeus

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Reich·stein   (rīk'stīn', rīKH'shtīn')   
Polish-born Swiss chemist. He shared a 1950 Nobel Prize for discoveries concerning the hormones of the adrenal cortex.
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Reichstein, Tadeus

Swiss chemist who, with Philip S. Hench and Edward C. Kendall, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for his discoveries concerning hormones of the adrenal cortex.

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