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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Kendall Elementary School in Norwalk Connecticut is named after him.
Edward Calvin Kendall Postage Stamp, Guyana.