M0013185: Dr. Albert Wettstein of the Ciba Laboratories in Switzerland.

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Dr. Albert Wettstein of the Ciba Laboratories in Switzerland.

Top of plate: Reproduction of a photograph of Dr. Albert Wettstein of the Ciba Laboratories in Switzerland, a member of a group of scientists to succeed in isolating elestrocortina potent hormone from the adrenal gland, taken while making the announcement on 6th September 1953. Middle of plate: Reproduction of a photograph of Dr. Silvia A Simpson and Dr. James F. Tait. of the Middlesex Hospital Group working on the isolation of 'Electrocortin' at the meeting of the Schweiz-Naturforsung Gesellschaft on 6th September 1953. Bottom of plate: Reproduction of a photograph of Tarcus Reichstein, Silvia A. Simpson, James F. Tait, A. Wettstein, Robert Neher and Joseph von Euq, who worked on the isolation of 'electrocortin'. These reproductions were made from an unidentified source. .

October 1953

3 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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