Edward Calvin Kendall
Edward Calvin Kendall was an American chemist. In 1950, Kendall was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine along with Swiss chemist Tadeusz Reichstein and Mayo Clinic physician Philip S. Hench, for their work with the hormones of the adrenal gland. Kendall did not only focus on the adrenal glands, he was also responsible for the isolation of thyroxine, a hormone of the thyroid gland and worked with the team that crystallized glutathione and identified its chemical structure.
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Date of Birth
March 8th, 1886
Age
138
Birth Place
United States of America, Connecticut, Norwalk
Date of Death
May 4th, 1972
Died Aged
86
Star Sign
Pisces
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