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Philip Showalter Hench

1896 - 1965

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Philip Showalter Hench (February 28, 1896 – March 30, 1965) was an American physician. Hench, along with his Mayo Clinic co-worker Edward Calvin Kendall and Swiss chemist Tadeus Reichstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for the discovery of the hormone cortisone, and its application for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. The Nobel Committee bestowed the award for the trio's "discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects." Hench received his undergraduate education at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, and received his medical training at the United States Army Medical Corps and the University of Pittsburgh. He began working at Mayo Clinic in 1923, later serving as the head of the Department of Rheumatology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Philip Showalter Hench is the 370th most popular physician (up from 398th in 2019), the 3,719th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,739th in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Philip Showalter Hench ranks 370 out of 726. Before him are Stamen Grigorov, Priscilla Chan, Gustav Hartlaub, Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser, Jean Pierre Flourens, and Ron Wyatt. After him are Johann Christian Reil, Jack Kevorkian, Johann Peter Frank, Christian Bohr, Paul Janssen, and Paul Julius Möbius.

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Among people born in 1896, Philip Showalter Hench ranks 110. Before him are Besse Cooper, Ludwik Fleck, Tadj ol-Molouk, He Long, Heimito von Doderer, and Erich Hückel. After him are Charlie Rivel, Léonide Massine, Richard Thorpe, John of Shanghai and San Francisco, Manuel A. Odría, and Josef Sudek. Among people deceased in 1965, Philip Showalter Hench ranks 83. Before him are Wilhelm Worringer, Ladislao Vajda, Roberto Cherro, Tito Schipa, Bertil Lindblad, and Lionel Terray. After him are George Adamski, Kurt Goldstein, Johann Kremer, Khalid al-Azm, Lee Hoi-chuen, and Princess Pauline of Württemberg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Philip Showalter Hench ranks 3,719 out of 20,380. Before him are Asa Gray (1810), Anne Meara (1929), Nikki Reed (1988), Nick Castle (1947), Charlie Hickcox (1947), and Karen Hantze Susman (1942). After him are Tate Donovan (1963), Jim "Bad News" Barnes (1941), Ben Turpin (1869), Wendy Carlos (1939), John P. Ryan (1936), and Jennifer Love Hewitt (1979).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Philip Showalter Hench ranks 46. Before him are Mehmet Oz (1960), Fernando J. Corbató (1926), Horace Wells (1815), James Curtis Hepburn (1815), Thomas Horsfield (1773), and Priscilla Chan (1985). After him are Jack Kevorkian (1928), Walter Jackson Freeman II (1895), William Bates (1860), Andrew Taylor Still (1828), Crawford Long (1815), and Deborah Birx (1956).

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