Reichstein

“A lot of the older workers, including myself, we don’t work there for the money,” Reichstein said.

Survivors include his wife, the former Esther Reichstein; his sons, John, who is the chairman of the psychiatry department at Yale, and Andrew, who is a psychiatry professor at Duke; and three grandchildren.

Satellite observations and data from CO2 measurement towers suggest that extreme events reduce plant productivity by an average of 4% in southern Europe and 1% in northern Europe, says Reichstein.

The biggest shock came seven months later, when Reichstein was finally recalled.