Max Tishler
Max Tishler · Science & Medicine
Chemist who developed industrial syntheses of vitamins, cortisone, and antibiotics.
1906, Boston, United States — 1989, Middletown, Connecticut, United States
United States
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Tishler was an American chemist at Merck who devised practical industrial syntheses of vitamins (notably riboflavin), the corticosteroid cortisone, the antibiotic sulfaquinoxaline and other essential medicines, then became a professor at Wesleyan University; he received the US National Medal of Science in 1987. Born in Boston to poor Jewish immigrants, his Jewish background is documented.
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Chemist who developed industrial syntheses of vitamins, cortisone, and antibiotics.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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