Hench, Philip Showalter (1896-1965), an American physician, shared the 1950 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with E. C. Kendall and Tadeus Reichstein. Hench received the award for his work on the use of cortisone and ACTH for treating rheumatic diseases. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He became head of the department of rheumatic diseases at the Mayo Clinic in 1926.
