Edward Calvin Kendall Ph.D.
Edward Calvin Kendall Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1950
Nobel Co-recipients Tadeus Reichstein, Phillip S.Hench
Name: Edward Calvin Kendall
Birth: 8 March 1886, South Norwalk, CT, USA
Death: 4 May 1972, Princeton, NJ, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Prize motivation: “”for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects”
Field: Biochemistry, endocrinology
Prize share: 1/3
What physiologic processes are modified by cortisone and how this influence is exerted are matters still locked within this hormone. Said Shakespeare’s soothsayer, “In Nature’s infinite book of secrecy a little I can read.”
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Biography
Edward C. Kendall. A Biographical Memoirs by Dwight Ingle, National Academy of Sciences. 44pages.
Scribners scientific memoirs
“His greatness lay in his ability to select important goals that were achievable, to persevere toward them during periods of adversity and disappointment, and to select gifted associates.” – Biographical Memoirs by Dwight Ingle
Edward Calvin Kendall. How has he transformed the scene? Minnesota Science and Teaching.
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