The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1950
Edward C. Kendall, Tadeus Reichstein, Philip S. Hench
Philip Showalter Hench
Born: 28 February 1896, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Died: 30 March 1965, Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Affiliation at the time of the award: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects"
Field: biochemistry, endocrinology