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kendall, edward calvin

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Kendall, Edward Calvin 1886-1972.  
American biochemist. He shared a 1950 Nobel Prize for discoveries concerning the hormones of the adrenal cortex.
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Kendall, Edward Calvin

American chemist who, with Philip S. Hench and Tadeus Reichstein, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for research on the structure and biological effects of adrenal cortex hormones.

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