TADEUS REICHSTEIN, 99
SWISS NOBEL LAUREATE
Author: Associated Press
Date: TUESDAY, August 6, 1996
Page: B7
Section: Obituary
BASEL, Switzerland -- Nobel laureate Tadeus Reichstein, who shared a prize
with two other physicians for work with cortisone, died last Thursday, family
members said yesterday. He was 99.
Mr. Reichstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1950. He also
laid the foundation for the industrial production of Vitamin C.
He studied the structure of hormones in the adrenal glands and isolated
various biologically active substances, including cortisone and
adrenocorticotropic hormone, or ACTH.
This discovery won him the Nobel Prize along with Americans Philip S.
Hench and Edward C. Kendall, both of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, who a few
years later discovered the anti-inflammatory properties of cortisone.
Cortisone is now used to treat conditions ranging from skin rash to joint
disorders. ACTH is a widely-used drug to treat rheumatoid arthritis.
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