Edward Calvin Kendall (1886 to 1972) was an American biochemist. He isolated thyroxine, the thyroid hormone, and later isolated several steroids from the adrenal cortex, including the compound that became known as cortisone. He shared the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tadeusz Reichstein and Philip S. Hench for discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects. He worked for most of his career as a biochemist at the Mayo Foundation.
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Kendall isolated the compound at the Mayo Clinic and shared the 1950 Nobel Prize with Hench and Reichstein
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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 glands.
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