biography
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Kendall, Edward C(alvin)
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| (1886–1972)
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| Endocrinologist, born in South Norwalk, Connecticut, USA. He was a research chemist with Parke, Davis & Co in Detroit (1910–11) and a hormone biochemist at St Luke's Hospital, New York City (1911–14). After moving to the Mayo Clinic (1914–51), he isolated and named thyroxin, the principal thyroid hormone (1916). Of his six hormonal isolates from the adrenal cortex, one (cortisone) was used by his colleague, Philip Hench, for the successful treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Kendall (with Hench and Swiss adrenal specialist Tadeus Reichstein) received the 1950 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his contributions to endocrinology. In 1951–72 he was a visiting professor and researcher at Princeton. |
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