Author Biographical Info

Dr. Philip Showalter Hench was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania February 28, 1896. In 1950, Dr. Hench was awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine jointly with biochemists Dr. Edward C. Kendall and Professor Tadeus Reichstein of Basle. He won many other awards for his research work, including the Lasker Award of the American Public Health Association, the Heberden Award from the Heberden Society in Great Britain, the Criss Award from the American Rheumatology Association,an award from the Argentine Society of Rheumatology, an honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the National University of Ireland, and the Modern Medicine Award.

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Identifier

AVA-MS076-004_006-03

Publication Date(s)

1950-12-10

Language

English

Keywords

Nobel Prizes, Nobel Prize winners, Award presentations, Dinners and dining, Cortisone, Rheumatology, Arthritis, Stockholm (Sweden), Philip S. Hench (Philip Showalter), Kendall, Edward C. (Edward Calvin), Tadeusz Reichstein, sound recordings, speeches (compositions)

Abstract

This recording features music that was part of the proceedings of the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1950. Philip S. Hench, Edward C. Kendall, and Tadeus Reichstein are honored with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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Digital copies made available by the Texas Medical Center Library

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