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
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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
Chemist. Adrenal cortex hormones including cortisone: structure, biological effects. Thyroid hormone thyroxine: isolated. Glutathione: crystallized, established structure.
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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Patents
| Publication: | 1/2 |
| Publication No: | US 1036640 A |
| Title: | Apparatus for separating liquids of different gravities |
| Publication Type: | United States Utility Patent |
| Publication Date: | Aug 27, 1912 |
| Filing Date: | Oct 12, 1911 |
| Inventors: | Kendall Edward Calvin |
| Assignee: | Kendall Edward Calvin |
| Abstract: | No Absract |
| Representative Figure: |   |
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| Details | Google Patents USPTO Patent Database |
| Publication: | 2/2 |
| Publication No: | US 1392767 A |
| Title: | Thyroid product and process of preparing the same |
| Publication Type: | United States Utility Patent |
| Publication Date: | Oct 4, 1921 |
| Filing Date: | Jun 7, 1916 |
| Inventors: | Kendall Edward Calvin |
| Assignee: | UNIV |
| Abstract: | No Abstract |
| Representative Figure: | No Figure |
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| Details | Google Patents USPTO Patent Database |