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Edward Calvin Kendall (March 8, 1886, South Norwalk, Connecticut – May 4, 1972, Princeton, New Jersey) was an American chemist who, together with Philip S. Hench and Tadeus ... - Edward Calvin Kendall
He was born on March 8, 1886, at South Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S.A. He was educated at Columbia University, where he obtained the degrees of Bachelor of Science in 1908 and ... - Edward Calvin Kendall definition of Edward Calvin Kendall in the Free ...
Kendall. Edward Calvin. 1886--1972, US biochemist, who isolated the hormone thyroxine (1916). He shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1950) with Phillip Hench and ...
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Edward Calvin Kendall
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Edward Calvin Kendall (1886-1972), American biochemist and Nobel laureate. Kendall was born in South Norwalk, Connecticut, and educated at Columbia University. He did extensive research in endocrinology, successively at Saint Luke's Hospital in New York City, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and Princeton University. His fundamental discoveries led to the isolation of thyroxine, glutathione, and several adrenal cortex hormones. Kendall's outstanding achievement was the isolation of cortisone, for which he was a cowinner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
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