Philip Showalter Hench
Philip Showalter Hench (
1896-
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. 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.
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