Today, 128 years ago, on July 20, 1897, the Swiss chemist Reichstein was born.

Tadeusz Reichstein (July 20, 1897 - April 1, 1996) was a Polish-born Swiss chemist. For his discovery of corticosteroids and their structural and physiological effects, he shared the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Eduard Calvin Kendall and Philip Showat Hench.

Comments: A long-lived scientist, the discovery of adrenal corticosteroids has greatly contributed to the development of medicine