The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1950
Awarded on: 1950-10-26
"for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects"
Affiliations:
- Mayo Clinic – Rochester, MN, USA
Edward Calvin Kendall
Born: 1886-03-08 in South Norwalk, CT, USA
Gender: male
Field: American biochemist (1886–1972)
Biography
Edward Calvin Kendall was an American biochemist. 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. Kendall not only researched the adrenal glands, he also isolated thyroxine, a hormone of the thyroid gland and worked with the team that crystallized glutathione and identified its chemical structure.