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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tadeusz Reichstein (July 20, 1897 - August 1, 1996) was a Polish-born Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate. Reichstein was born into a Jewish family at Włocławek, Congress Poland, and spent his early childhood at Kiev, where his father was an engineer. He began his education a boarding-school at Jena, Germany. In 1933, working in Zürich, Switzerland, Reichstein succeeded, independently of Sir Norman Haworth and his collaborators in the United Kingdom, in synthesizing vitamin C (ascorbic acid) in what is now called the Reichstein process. ... Read more