Stamp vignette on medical science: Philip S. Hench--1950 Nobel Laureate

Mayo Clinic Proceedings | November 1, 2001| | Copyright

In 1950, Philip Showalter Hench shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with his colleague Edward Calvin Kendall (1886-1972) and Polish-Swiss chemist Tadeus Reichstein (1897-1996) for their "discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure, and biological effects." Their work resulted in the effective treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and many inflammatory diseases that previously were not treatable. Kendall and Hench performed the chemical and clinical studies at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn; Reichstein had discovered cortisone independently.

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