Dr. Tadeus Reichstein, Jewish Professor of Organic Chemistry at Basle University who won the Nobel Prize this year for medicine, announced this week-end that he will turn over his share of the prize money to Hasle University for further research work.
Dr. Reichstein, who shared the award with two Maye clinic doctors, received the prize for his work on hormones. Marlier, he discovered Vitamin C and a treatment for Addisons Disease. Prof. Reichstein, was born in Poland in 1897 and was taken to Switzerland in 1906 by his family. In 1920 he took his degree as engineer-chemist at the Swiss Federal Technical College at Zurich.
A Swiss novelist and poet, himself a Nobel prize winner, today suggested a Nobel prize award in literature for Prof. Martin laber of the Hebrew University. The poet, Harmann Hesse, made the suggestion in reply to a request from a Berlin news-paper–Der Atend–to name a person deserving the award. He declared that in his opinion there was no one more deserving than Professor Buber whom he described as a “qualified leader of spiritual Judsism, a promoter and preserver of Hassidic legends and a Bible translator.”
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