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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MS076-b29f1rYBE

Publication Date(s)

December 10, 1950

Language

English

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The Hench Family in formal attire gathered for the 1950 Nobel Prize ceremony. Pictured are Philip S. Hench, his wife Mary Kahler Hench, and their four children, as well as Mary's mother Mabel Van Campen Kahler. See more at Philip S. Hench, MD Papers and its finding aid.

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Nobel Prizes, Nobel Prize winners, Award presentations, Stockholm (Sweden), Philip S. Hench (Philip Showalter), Mary Genevieve Kahler Hench, black-and-white photographs

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