Philip Showalter Hench (February 28, 1896 - March 30, 1965) was an American physician who, with E. C. Kendall, in 1948 successfully applied an adrenal hormone (later known as cortisone) in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis at the Mayo Clinic. With Kendall and Tadeus Reichstein of Switzerland, Hench received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for discoveries concerning hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects. Wikipedia
Philip Showalter Hench was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Februar 28, 1896, the son of Jacob Bixler Hench and Clara Showalter. nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1950/hench-bio.html
Philip Showalter Hench received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Pittsburgh in 1920 and came to the Mayo Clinic in 1923. During the years 1928 and 1929 he studied at the University of Freiburg and at Friedrich von Müller's (1858-1941) cli medicine.nobel.brainparad.com/philip_showalter_hench.html
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