Edward Calvin Kendall

AllImages News Books Maps Videos Shopping

American chemist

Edward Calvin Kendall was an American chemist. 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... Wikipedia

Born: March 8, 1886, South Norwalk, Norwalk, CT

Died: May 4, 1972 (age 86�years), Princeton, NJ

Awards: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Books: John Deere's Steel Plow, Thyroxine, Influence of the Thyroid Gland on Oxidation in the Animal Organism, and more

Education: Columbia University, Stamford High School, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, and more