Author Biographical Info

Dr. Philip Showalter Hench was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania February 28, 1896. He died on vacation in Jamaica, March 30, 1965. He graduated from Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, at the age of 20 and entered the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He completed his medical studies in 1920 and in 1921 became a fellow at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Minnesota. He was appointed faculty member at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, in 1925. In 1926 he was appointed head of the new section on rheumatic diseases. In 1928 he studied in Frieburg, Germany under the pathologist Professor Aschoff and in Munich under Professor von Muller. In 1953 he became a senior consultant of the Mayo Clinic. He retired from the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in 1957. See more at Hench, Philip Showalter.

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Identifier

AVA-MS076-004_006-06

Language

English

Publication Date

12-10-1950

Abstract

This recording features 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. In

This segment, the speaker addreses the recipients in English and in German, followed by music. See more at Philip S. Hench, MD Papers and its finding aid.

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)

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Digital copies made available by the Texas Medical Center Library

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