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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philip Showalter Hench has received more than 111,325 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Philip Showalter Hench is the 398th most popular physician (up from 465th in 2019), the 3,739th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,128th in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Philip Showalter Hench ranks 398 out of 726. Before him are Peseshet, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Emil Aarestrup, Gregg L. Semenza, Wilhelm Griesinger, and Theodor Meynert. After him are Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Charles Estienne, Andrew Yao, Ron Wyatt, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and Rufus of Ephesus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Philip Showalter Hench ranks 133. Before him are Josephine Tey, Ramón Franco, Jacques Duclos, Dodie Smith, Ieronim Uborevich, and Josef Kammhuber. After him are Stanisława Leszczyńska, Maurice De Waele, Prince Sigismund of Prussia, Ira Gershwin, Hubert Lanz, and Teinosuke Kinugasa. Among people deceased in 1965, Philip Showalter Hench ranks 95. Before him are Johann Kremer, Erik Heinrichs, Mostafa El-Nahas, Árpád Szakasits, Linda Darnell, and D. N. Aidit. After him are Viola Desmond, Nikolay Lossky, Maria Dąbrowska, Daniel-Rops, Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, and Dorothy Dandridge.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Philip Showalter Hench ranks 3,739 out of 20,380. Before him are Dan Sullivan (1964), Budd Boetticher (1916), Roy E. Disney (1930), James Rollins (1961), Elizabeth Banks (1974), and William Baumol (1922). After him are William Graham Sumner (1840), Peggy Lipton (1946), Tuesday Weld (1943), William Baldwin (1963), Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887), and Logan Paul (1995).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Philip Showalter Hench ranks 44. Before him are Anthony Fauci (1940), Mehmet Oz (1960), Walter Jackson Freeman II (1895), Andrew Taylor Still (1828), Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898), and Gregg L. Semenza (1956). After him are William Stewart Halsted (1852), Harvey Cushing (1869), Helen B. Taussig (1898), William Kaelin Jr. (1957), Crawford Long (1815), and Charles Best (1899).

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