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Philip Showalter HenchPhilip 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. Additional recommended knowledgeHe was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and died in Ocho Rios, Jamaica.
Categories: Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine | Endocrinologists |
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