Nobel Prize Recipient. He received professional recognition, as an American chemist, after being awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. With each receiving one third of the monetary prize, he shared the coveted award with Polish-born Swiss chemist, Tadeis Reichstein and Philip Showalter Hench, a physician and colleague at Mayo Clinic. These men received the award "for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects." In the mid-1930s he and Reichstein succeeded in isolating and analyzing the composition of a number of similar hormones excreted from the adrenal cortex gland, and later with the input of Hench in the 1940s, this became the basis for cortisone preparations to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammations. After earning a Bachelor of Science in 1908 from Columbia University in New York City, he stayed to received a Master of Science, specializing in Chemistry, in 1909, was Goldschmidt Fellow from 1909 to 1910, and obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1910. From 1910 until 1911, he was a research chemist for the pharmaceutical company, Parke, Davis and Company at Detroit, researching the thyroid gland, and from 1911 until 1914 he continued this work at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City. In 1914 he was appointed Head of the Biochemistry Section in the Graduate School of the Mayo Foundation in Rochester, which is affiliated with the University of Minnesota, and the next year, he was appointed Director of the Division of Biochemistry and subsequently Professor of Physiological Chemistry, remaining at that position until mandatory retirement age. After retiring from Mayo in 1951, he accepted the position Visiting Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at Princeton University, remaining active until his death. Besides the Nobel Prize, he received numerous accolades including the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh and the 1966 Gold Plate from American Academy of Achievement. He married and the couple had two daughters. His wife died within a year after his death.
Nobel Prize Recipient. He received professional recognition, as an American chemist, after being awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. With each receiving one third of the monetary prize, he shared the coveted award with Polish-born Swiss chemist, Tadeis Reichstein and Philip Showalter Hench, a physician and colleague at Mayo Clinic. These men received the award "for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects." In the mid-1930s he and Reichstein succeeded in isolating and analyzing the composition of a number of similar hormones excreted from the adrenal cortex gland, and later with the input of Hench in the 1940s, this became the basis for cortisone preparations to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammations. After earning a Bachelor of Science in 1908 from Columbia University in New York City, he stayed to received a Master of Science, specializing in Chemistry, in 1909, was Goldschmidt Fellow from 1909 to 1910, and obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1910. From 1910 until 1911, he was a research chemist for the pharmaceutical company, Parke, Davis and Company at Detroit, researching the thyroid gland, and from 1911 until 1914 he continued this work at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City. In 1914 he was appointed Head of the Biochemistry Section in the Graduate School of the Mayo Foundation in Rochester, which is affiliated with the University of Minnesota, and the next year, he was appointed Director of the Division of Biochemistry and subsequently Professor of Physiological Chemistry, remaining at that position until mandatory retirement age. After retiring from Mayo in 1951, he accepted the position Visiting Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at Princeton University, remaining active until his death. Besides the Nobel Prize, he received numerous accolades including the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh and the 1966 Gold Plate from American Academy of Achievement. He married and the couple had two daughters. His wife died within a year after his death.
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