“for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects”
Philip Showalter Hench was an American physician at the Mayo Clinic. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure, and biological effects. His research contributed to the understanding and therapeutic use of adrenal cortex hormones.
- Field
- Medicine · Endocrinology
- Lifespan
- 1896–1965