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Tadeusz Reichstein

1897 - 1996

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Tadeusz Reichstein (20 July 1897 – 1 August 1996), also known as Tadeus Reichstein, was a Polish-Swiss chemist and a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (1950), which was awarded for his work on the isolation of cortisone. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tadeusz Reichstein is the 40th most popular chemist (up from 66th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Poland (up from 98th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Chemist.

Tadeusz Reichstein was a Polish-born Swiss chemist who is most famous for his discovery of the first successful drug for treating diabetes.

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Among chemists, Tadeusz Reichstein ranks 40 out of 602. Before him are Robert Robinson, Henri Moissan, Richard Willstätter, F. Sherwood Rowland, Linus Pauling, and Paul Karrer. After him are Humphry Davy, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Alfred Werner, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Adolf von Baeyer, and Fritz Pregl.

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Among people born in 1897, Tadeusz Reichstein ranks 8. Before him are Pope Paul VI, Irène Joliot-Curie, William Faulkner, Patrick Blackett, Amelia Earhart, and Zakir Husain. After him are Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Ivan Konev, Subhas Chandra Bose, Thích Quảng Đức, Paavo Nurmi, and Ludwig Erhard. Among people deceased in 1996, Tadeusz Reichstein ranks 7. Before him are Baba Vanga, François Mitterrand, Marcello Mastroianni, Nevill Francis Mott, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, and Tupac Shakur. After him are Thomas Kuhn, Carl Sagan, Gladwyn Jebb, Mohammad Najibullah, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Marguerite Duras.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Tadeusz Reichstein ranks 31 out of 1,694. Before him are Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Erich Ludendorff (1865), Marie Leszczyńska (1703), Fedor von Bock (1880), Władysław Szpilman (1911), and Lech Kaczyński (1949). After him are Manfred von Richthofen (1892), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Rudolf Clausius (1822), Zygmunt Bauman (1925), Władysław IV Vasa (1595), and Sigismund II Augustus (1520).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Tadeusz Reichstein ranks 2. Before him are Fritz Haber (1868). After him are Walther Nernst (1864), Kurt Alder (1902), Friedrich Bergius (1884), Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Casimir Funk (1884), Antoni Grabowski (1857), Clara Immerwahr (1870), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Richard Abegg (1869), and Ignacy Mościcki (1867).

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