Drs. Charles H. Slocumb (left), Howard F. Polley, Edward C. Kendall and Philip S. Hench in the laboratory where cortisone was discovered. Drs. Kendall and Hench shared the Nobel Prize in 1950 for the isolation and first use of cortisone.

1950

Cortisone Discovery and the Nobel Prize Finding a new way to treat rheumatoid arthritis.